Word Meanings - GOOSERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.

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• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• GOOSERY
  1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• SERMONEER
  A sermonizer. B. Jonson.
• SERMONIZE
  1. To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach. 2. To inculcate rigid rules. Chesterfield.
• SERMONING
  The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching. Chaucer.
• ACTOR
  1. One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. 2. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak. An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs. One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or
• SERMONET
  A short sermon.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• KEEP
  k, AS.c to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. 1. To care; to desire. I kepe not of armes for to yelp . Chaucer. 2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to
• GOOSEWINGED
  Having a "goosewing." Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• GOOSEFISH
  See ANGLER
• GOOSEWING
  One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
• SERMONISH
  Resembling a sermon.
• KEEPER
  1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• SAFE-KEEPING
  The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• WAY-GOOSE
  See 2
• CALEFACTOR
  A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• SUPERFINICAL
  Extremely finical.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• REFRACTOR
  Anything that refracts; specifically:
• INNKEEPER
  An innholder.
• REDACTOR
  One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor. Carlyle.