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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.

 

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