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.