Word Meanings - LEAVINGS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Things left; remnants; relics. 2. Refuse; offal.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LEAVINGS)

• Remainder
• Rest
• residue
• remnant
• balance
• surplus
• leavings
• relics
• difference
• Reminiscence
• Remnant
• relic
• trace
• savor

Related words: (words related to LEAVINGS)

• SURPLUS
  1. That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus. 2. Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• RELICT
  A woman whose husband is dead; a widow. Eli dying without issue, Jacob was obbliged by law to marry his relict, and so to raise up seed to his brother Eli. South.
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• SAVORLY
  In a savory manner. Barrow.
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• RESIDUE
  That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies. (more info) that is left behind, remaining, fr. residere to
• RELICTED
  Left uncovered, as land by recession of water. Bouvier.
• DIFFERENCE
  An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency. (more info) 1. The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or
• TRACEABLE
  Capable of being traced. -- Trace"a*ble*ness, n. -- Trace"a/bly, adv.
• REMAINDER
  Remaining; left; left over; refuse. Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage. Shak.
• LEAVINGS
  1. Things left; remnants; relics. 2. Refuse; offal.
• SAVORY
  The chewing flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savory herb. Milton.
• REMNANT
  Remaining; yet left. "Because of the remnant dregs of his disease." Fuller. And quiet dedicate her remnant life To the just duties of an humble wife. Prior.
• SAVORILY
  In a savory manner.
• BALANCEABLE
  Such as can be balanced.
• BALANCER
  In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing. (more info) 1. One who balances, or uses a balance.
• BALANCE
  A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary). The constellation Libra. The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September. 8. A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i.,
• BALANCEREEF
  The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.
• RELICLY
  In the manner of relics.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• DERELICTION
  A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. (more info) 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other
• DERELICT
  1. Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. Jer.
• POURELICHE
  Poorly. Chaucer.
• COUNTERBALANCE
  To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary
• UPTRACE
  To trace up or out.
• INTRACELLULAR
  Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells.
• OSTRACEAN
  Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type.
• OVERBALANCE
  1. To exceed equality with; to outweigh. Locke. 2. To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.