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Word Meanings - INDIRECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.

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  • DOUBLEGANGER
    An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
  • ARTIFICER
    A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
  • DOUBLE
    Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally
  • DOUBLE-SHADE
    To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
  • DOUBLE-LOCK
    To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
  • DEALBATION
    Act of bleaching; a whitening.
  • DOUBLE DEALER
    One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
  • CUNNINGNESS
    Quality of being cunning; craft.
  • TRICK
    The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
  • DEALFISH
    A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
  • TRICKISH
    Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
  • DOUBLEHEARTED
    Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.
  • DOUBLETHREADED
    Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
  • UNDECEIVE
    To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
  • CHEATABLE
    Capable of being cheated.
  • TRICKERY
    The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
  • TRICKING
    Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.
  • DECEITFUL
    Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.
  • GUIDEBOOK
    A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
  • DECEITLESS
    Free from deceit. Bp. Hall.
  • THYROIDEAL
    Thyroid.
  • ENTERDEAL
    Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
  • WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
    A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
  • IDEALISTIC
    Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
  • UNBEGUILE
    To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.
  • SELF-DELUSION
    The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
  • WATER ORDEAL
    See 1
  • ESCHEATOR
    An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
  • DEFRAUD
    To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing

 

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