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Word Meanings - LET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose. He was so strong that no man might him let. Chaucer. He who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 2. Thess. ii. 7. Mine ancient wound is hardly whole, And lets me from the saddle.

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To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose. He was so strong that no man might him let. Chaucer. He who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 2. Thess. ii. 7. Mine ancient wound is hardly whole, And lets me from the saddle. Tennyson. (more info) slow; akin to D. letten to hinder, G. verletzen to hurt, Icel. letja

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    Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • ADMITTER
    One who admits.
  • EXPERIENCED
    Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
  • SUPPORTATION
    Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
  • PERMIT
    1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. 2. To grant express license or liberty
  • ALLOWEDLY
    By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • UNDERGORE
    To gore underneath.
  • ALLOW
    allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
  • DISCONTINUE
    To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
  • ALLOWER
    1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
  • SUPPORTFUL
    Abounding with support. Chapman.
  • EXHAUSTION
    An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
  • PERMITTER
    One who permits. A permitter, or not a hinderer, of sin. J. Edwards.
  • UNFASTEN
    To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
  • ENDUREMENT
    Endurance. South.
  • ADMITTANCE
    The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
  • SUPPORTLESS
    Having no support. Milton.
  • OPPOSELESS
    Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
  • DISCOURAGEMENT
    1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
  • LONG-SUFFERANCE
    Forbearance to punish or resent.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
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    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • SALLOWISH
    Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
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    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
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    Any plant of the order MalvaceƦ.
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    The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
  • TALLOW-FACED
    Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
  • OVERTHWARTLY
    In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.

 

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