Word Meanings - INCOMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who comes in. Outgoers and incomers. Lew Wallace. 2. One who succeeds another, as a tenant of land, houses, etc.
Related words: (words related to INCOMER)
- ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - TENANT
One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title - COMES
The answer to the theme in a fugue. - TENANTLESS
Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak. - TENANT SAW
See TENON - ANOTHER
1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks, - ANOTHER-GAINES
Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney. - TENANTRY
1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. 2. Tenancy. Ridley. - COMESSATION
A reveling; a rioting. Bp. Hall. - TENANTABLE
Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. -- Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n. - ANOTHER-GATES
Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras. - COMESTIBLE
Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent. Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot. - TER-TENANT
See TERRE-TENANT - SUBLIEUTENANT
An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank. - TERRE-TENANT
One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant. - UNDERTENANT
The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee. - LIEUTENANT
of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the - LIEUTENANT GENERAL
. An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and - LIEUTENANTRY
See LIEUTENANCY - COTENANT
A tenant in common, or a joint tenant. - LIEUTENANTSHIP
See 1 - UNTENANT
To remove a tenant from. Coleridge.