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Word Meanings - LIBELLEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The party against whom a libel has been filed; -- corresponding to defendant in a common law action. The defendant in an action of libel.

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  • FILOSELLE
    A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.
  • PARTY
    1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
  • FILAMENTOUS
    Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
  • FILIPENDULOUS
    Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
  • AGAINSTAND
    To withstand.
  • COMMONER
    1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
  • FILLIPEEN
    See PHILOPENA
  • FILIALLY
    In a filial manner.
  • FILLIBEG
    A kilt. See Filibeg.
  • FILICAL
    Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.
  • CORRESPOND
    1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.
  • CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
    A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
  • ACTION
    Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
  • FILMINESS
    State of being filmy.
  • FILLETING
    The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
  • COMMONISH
    Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
  • FILLER
    One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer.
  • COMMONLY
    1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
  • CORRESPONDINGLY
    In a corresponding manner; conformably.
  • LIBELLEE
    The party against whom a libel has been filed; -- corresponding to defendant in a common law action. The defendant in an action of libel.
  • INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
    Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
  • KAFILAH
    See CAFILA
  • UNCOMMON
    Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
  • PROFILE
    A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face. A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like. A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the
  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • REACTIONIST
    A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
  • INTERCOMMON
    To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
  • MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
    The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
  • REDACTION
    The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
  • CHYLIFACTION
    The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
  • CAFFILA
    See CAFILA
  • PROFILING
    In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.
  • POURPARTY
    A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.

 

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