Word Meanings - INSTEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In the place or room; -- usually followed by of. Let thistles grow of wheat. Job xxxi. 40. Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab. 2 Sam. xvii.

Related words: (words related to INSTEAD)

• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• CAPTAINRY
  Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship.
• INSTEAD
  1. In the place or room; -- usually followed by of. Let thistles grow of wheat. Job xxxi. 40. Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab. 2 Sam. xvii.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• WHEATSTONE'S BRIDGE
  See BRIDGE
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• CAPTAIN
  , LL. capitaneus, capitanus, fr. L. 1. A head, or chief officer; as: The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service. An officer in the United
• WHEATBIRD
  A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
• FOLLOWING
  1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay. 2. Vocation; business; profession.
• PLACENTIOUS
  Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
• FOLLOWING SURFACE
  See ABOVE
• WHEATSEL BIRD
  The male of the chaffinch.
• PLACEBO
  The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
• PLACENTIFEROUS
  Having or producing a placenta.
• PLACENTATION
  The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
• COWWHEAT
  A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields.
• DISPLACER
  The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces.
• NOTWHEAT
  Wheat not bearded. Carew.
• SEA CAPTAIN
  The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea.
• BY-PLACE
  A retired or private place.
• SELF-COMPLACENCY
  The quality of being self-complacent. J. Foster.
• MISPLACE
  To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.