Word Meanings - HOARDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. 2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement
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A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. 2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement was surrounded by a hoarding, the space within which was divided into compartments by sheets of tin. Tyndall. (more info) German or Dutch origin; cf. D. horde hurdle, fence, G. horde, hürde;
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- POSTHUME; POSTHUMED
Posthumos. I. Watts. Fuller. - FENCE MONTH
the month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited. Bullokar. -- Fence roof, a covering for defense. "They fitted their shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland. Fence time, the breeding time of fish or - POSTAXIAL
Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb. - POSTABLE
Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu. - WHILE
wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All - POSTEXIST
To exist after; to live subsequently. - POST OFFICE
See POST - POSTHOUSE
1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office. - POSTNATE
Subsequent. "The graces and gifts of the spirit are postnate." Jer. Taylor. - WHILES
1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n. - SCREENINGS
The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - POST-DISSEIZOR
A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone. - POSTFURCA
One of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of an insect. - POST NOTE
A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. Burrill. - POSTILION
One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used. - LONDONISM
A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London. - POST-OBIT; POST-OBIT BOND
A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. Bouvier. - 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. - EVERYWHERENESS
Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew. - APOSTOLICISM; APOSTOLICITY
The state or quality of being apostolical. - PETROGRAPHIC; PETROGRAPHICAL
Pertaining to petrography. - STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the - APOSTEMATOUS
Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme. - PENTAGRAPHIC; PENTAGRAPHICAL
Pantographic. See Pantograph. - PACKHOUSE
Warehouse for storing goods. - PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically - WAREHOUSE
A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - HENHOUSE
A house or shelter for fowls. - PHYTOGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to phytography.