Word Meanings - HANDLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch. Fairholt. (more info) 1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you

Additional info about word: HANDLING

The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch. Fairholt. (more info) 1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day. Spenser.

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• USHERDOM
  The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• USTULATE
  Blackened as if burned.
• HANDLING
  The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch. Fairholt. (more info) 1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• USURY
  1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii.
• USURPANT
  Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• BRUSHWOOD
  1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches of trees cut off.
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• USQUEBAUGH
  of life; uisge water + beatha life; akin to Gr. bi`os life. See 1. A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott. 2. A liquor
• USURIOUS
  1. Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person. 2. Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract. -- U*su"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- U*su"ri*ous*ness, n.
• USURER
  1. One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender. If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. Ex. xxii. 25. 2. One who lends money at
• USUFRUCTUARY
  A person who has the use of property and reaps the profits of it. Wharton.
• HANDLESS
  Without a hand. Shak.
• USURPATURE
  Usurpation. "Beneath man's usurpature." R. Browning.
• BRUSH
  A tuft of hair on the mandibles. 4. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood. 5. A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush. (more info) F. brosse brush, LL. brustia, bruscia, fr. OHG. brusta,
• BRUSHITE
  A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.
• USUCAPTION
  The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law. (more info) use; usu + capere to take: cf. usucapio
• PROTOGYNOUS
  See PROTEROGYNOUS
• MENISCUS
  A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent.
• ANGUINEOUS
  Snakelike.
• RIPARIOUS
  Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
• PALACIOUS
  Palatial. Graunt.
• PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
  Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• TROUSSEAU
  The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• POLYPHYLLOUS
  Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
• BUSH
  The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See
• DESMOGNATHOUS
  Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• BICUSPID
  One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• HORRISONOUS
  Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
• RUSHED
  Abounding or covered with rushes.
• CARNIVOROUS
  Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
• ANTIBILLOUS
  Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered