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Word Meanings - FORTNIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The space of fourteen days; two weeks. (more info) nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also,

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  • RECKONER
    One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
  • SPACE
    One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
  • NIGHTSHADE
    A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna
  • FOURTEEN
    Four and ten more; twice seven.
  • RECKON
    reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
  • SPACE BAR; SPACE KEY
    A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.
  • SPACELESS
    Without space. Coleridge.
  • RECKONING
    1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically: An account of time. Sandys. Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc. Even reckoning makes
  • SPACEFUL
    Wide; extensive. Sandys.
  • FOURTEENTH
    1. Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month. 2. Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived.
  • NIGHTSHIRT
    A kind of nightgown for men.
  • DEAD-RECKONING
    See A
  • DISPACE
    To roam. In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser.
  • HYPERSPACE
    An imagined space having more than three dimensions.
  • MISRECKONING
    An erroneous computation.
  • ANCHOR SPACE
    In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.
  • OVERRECKON
    To reckon too highly.
  • UNDERRECKON
    To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate. Bp. Hall.
  • MISRECKON
    To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate. Swift.
  • ANIGHT; ANIGHTS
    In the night time; at night. Does he hawk anights still Marston.

 

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