Word Meanings - HUSBANDMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The master of a family. Chaucer. 2. A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground.

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• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• FARMERESS
  A woman who farms.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• FARMERY
  The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• TILLER
  One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
• MASTERFULLY
  In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.
• MASTERSINGER
  One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
• MASTER
  A vessel having masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.
• GROUNDLY
  Solidly; deeply; thoroughly. Those whom princes do once groundly hate, Let them provide to die as sure us fate. Marston.
• GROUNDING
  The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis.
• MASTERLINESS
  The quality or state of being masterly; ability to control wisely or skillfully.
• GROUNDAGE
  A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port. Bouvier.
• MASTERLY
  1. Suitable to, or characteristic of, a master; indicating thorough knowledge or superior skill and power; showing a master's hand; as, a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly policy. "A wise and masterly inactivity." Sir
• FARMERSHIP
  Skill in farming.
• MASTERLESS
  Destitute of a master or owner; ungoverned or ungovernable. -- Mas"ter*less*ness, n.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• ARTILLERIST
  A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• ARTILLERY
  fr. LL. artillaria, artilleria, machines and apparatus of all kinds used in war, vans laden with arms of any kind which follow camps; F. artillerie great guns, ordnance; OF. artillier to work artifice, to fortify, to arm, prob. from L. ars, artis,
• FINESTILLER
  One who finestills.
• TASKMASTER
  One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.
• BANDMASTER
  The conductor of a musical band.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.