Word Meanings - GUTTERSNIPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small poster, suitable for a curbstone. A curbstone broker.

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• BROKERY
  The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• POSTERO
  - (posterior, back; as, postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated back and at the side.
• BROKERAGE
  1. The business or employment of a broker. Burke. 2. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.
• POSTERITY
  1. The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham. If
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• POSTERIORLY
  Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• BROKERLY
  Mean; servile. B. Jonson.
• CURBSTONE
  A stone Curbstone broker.See under Broker.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• POSTERIORITY
  The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.
• SUITABLE
  Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv. Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant;
• POSTERIORS
  The hinder parts, as of an animal's body. Swift.
• BROKER
  An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• HYPOSTERNUM
  See HYPOPLASTRON
• SHAREBROKER
  A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• PAWNBROKER
  One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
• BILLPOSTER; BILLSTICKER
  One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.