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Word Meanings - FLASKET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A long, shallow basket, with two handles. In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket. Spenser. 2. A small flask. 3. A vessel in which viands are served. Pope.

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  • SERVING
    a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant,
  • BASKET BALL
    A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.
  • SERVO-MOTOR
    A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve
  • SERVILELY
    In a servile manner; slavishly.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • SERVILENESS
    Quality of being servile; servility.
  • SERVABLE
    Capable of being preserved. (more info) 1. Capable of being served. 2. Etym:
  • SERVITORSHIP
    The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell.
  • SERVER
    1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph.
  • FLASK
    The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks,
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • SERVIAN
    Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe. -- n.
  • HANDLESS
    Without a hand. Shak.
  • SHALLOW-BRAINED
    Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
  • GATHERER
    An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
  • SHALLOW-WAISTED
    Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
  • SHALLOW
    schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
  • SERVALINE
    Related to, or resembling, the serval.
  • SERVICE
    The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • DISSERVE
    To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
  • RESERVE
    1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
  • DESERVEDNESS
    Meritoriousness.
  • MEGATHEROID
    One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
  • CONSERVATIONAL
    Tending to conserve; preservative.
  • MISOBSERVE
    To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
  • SUBSERVIENCE; SUBSERVIENCY
    The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • INSERVE
    To be of use to an end; to serve.
  • PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
    A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
  • BREADBASKET
    The stomach. S. Foote.
  • OBSERVANCY
    Observance.
  • MANSERVANT
    A male servant.
  • BOND SERVICE
    The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.
  • DESERVE
    1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John

 

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