Word Meanings - FREEBOOTERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting. Booth.

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• GAINSOME
  1. Gainful. 2. Prepossessing; well-favored. Massinger.
• BOOTHY
  See BOTHY
• FREEBOOTER
  One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon. (more info) vrij free + buit booty, akin to E. booty. See Free, and Booty, and
• GAINSAY
  To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
• GAINSAYER
  One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• GAINSBOROUGH HAT
  A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727-
• BOOTHALE
  To forage for booty; to plunder. Beau. & Fl.
• FREEBOOTY
  Freebootery.
• GAINSTAND
  To withstand; to resist. Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney.
• GAINSTRIVE
  To strive or struggle against; to withstand. Spenser.
• FREEBOOTERY
  The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting. Booth.
• FREEBOOTING
  Robbery; plunder; a pillaging.
• BOOTH
  G. bude, baude; from the same root as AS. b to dwell, E. boor, bower, be; cf. Bohem. bauda, Pol. buda, Russ. budka, Lith. buda, W. bwth, 1. A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation. Camden. 2.
• BOOTHOSE
  1. Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak. 2. Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback. Sir W. Scott.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• AGAIN; AGAINS
  Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
• TOLLBOOTH
  1. A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. Wyclif . 2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail. Sir W. Scott.
• 'GAINST; GAINST
  A contraction of Against.