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Word Meanings - FORWARDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher. (more info) 1. The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.

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  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • TRANSMITTER
    One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver.
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • MAKING-IRON
    A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
  • FINISHER
    1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • PUTTYROOT
    An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • OCCUPATION
    1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • PUTTER-ON
    An instigator. Shak.
  • MERCHANDISER
    A trader. Bunyan.
  • PUTT
    A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole.
  • READY-MADE
    Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • TRANSMITTIBLE
    Capable of being transmitted; transmissible.
  • PUTTING GREEN
    The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.
  • PROCESSIONARY
    Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • MANTUAMAKER
    One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
  • ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • BOOTMAKER
    One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • BRICKMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
  • ISOTHERMAL
    Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
  • EEL-MOTHER
    The eelpout.
  • ISOTHERMOBATHIC
    Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.

 

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