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Word Meanings - NONAPPOINTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Neglect of making appointment; failure to receive an appointment.

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  • RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
    An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • RECEIVE
    To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
  • MAKING-IRON
    A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
  • APPOINTMENT
    The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
  • NEGLECT
    1. Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy. To tell thee sadly,
  • MAKED
    Made. Chaucer.
  • MAKE-UP
    The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
  • MAKESHIFT
    That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
  • RECEIVEDNESS
    The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion. Boyle.
  • MAKEWEIGHT
    That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
  • NEGLECTION
    The state of being negligent; negligence. Shak.
  • FAILURE
    1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
  • MAKE-BELIEVE
    A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.
  • MAKARON
    See 2
  • MAKING-UP
    1. The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof. 2. The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.
  • RECEIVERSHIP
    The state or office of a receiver.
  • MAKI
    A lemur. See Lemur.
  • NEGLECTFUL
    Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly,
  • MAKE-BELIEF
    A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
  • MANTUAMAKER
    One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
  • BOOTMAKER
    One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
  • BRICKMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
  • MISRECEIVE
    To receive wrongly.
  • SAILMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
  • WIDOW-MAKER
    One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
  • MATCHMAKER
    1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
  • HAYMAKING
    The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
  • PREAPPOINTMENT
    Previous appointment.
  • MERRYMAKING
    Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
  • GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
    One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
  • VLISSMAKI
    The diadem indris. See Indris.
  • SELF-NEGLECTING
    A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
  • MAKE
    A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
  • ROADMAKER
    One who makes roads.

 

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