Word Meanings - LINER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc., ; a shim. (more info) 1. One who lines, as, a liner of shoes. 2. A vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a line-of- battle ship; a ship of the line.
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- BATTLE
Fertile. See Battel, a. - PLACODERMATA
See PLACODERMI - REGULARITY
The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion. - 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. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - PLACID
Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay. - ADJUSTIVE
Tending to adjust. - LINER
A thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc., ; a shim. (more info) 1. One who lines, as, a liner of shoes. 2. A vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a line-of- battle ship; a ship of the line. - PLACIT
A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn. - REGULARIA
A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins. - SPACE
One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance - PLACOPHORA
A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura. - PIECER
1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - PIECEMEALED
Divided into pieces. - PLACIDNESS
The quality or state of being placid. - 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 - PLACOIDIAN
One of the placoids. - PIECEMEAL
1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope. - CHURCHLINESS
Regard for the church. - FRIENDLINESS
The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney. - UNPLACABLE
Implacable. - LORDLINESS
The state or quality of being lordly. Shak. - IRREGULARITY
The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular. - STEELINESS
The quality of being steely. - SPARPIECE
The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt. - CHILLINESS
1. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness. 2. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air. 3. Formality; lack of warmth. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - MELANCHOLINESS
The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - DEATHLINESS
The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey. - PENNY-A-LINER
One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer. Thackeray.