Word Meanings - NURSERYMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.

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• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• REAR-HORSE
  A mantis.
• 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.
• REARGUMENT
  An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• REARMOST
  Farthest in the rear; last.
• 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
• REARLY
  Early. Beau. & Ft.
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• NURSERY
  1. The act of nursing. "Her kind nursery." Shak. 2. The place where nursing is carried on; as: The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children. A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• REARER
  One he, or that which, rears.
• REARWARD
  The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also used figuratively. Shak.
• PLACENTIOUS
  Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
• PLACEBO
  The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
• PLACENTIFEROUS
  Having or producing a placenta.
• NURSERYMAN
  One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.
• REAR
  Early; soon. Then why does Cuddy leave his cot so rear! Gay.
• FIREARM
  A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
• DREAR
  Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• OVEREARNEST
  Too earnest. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ly, adv. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ness, n.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• AREAR
  To raise; to set up; to stir up.
• PREARM
  To forearm.
• UPREAR
  To raise; to erect. Byron.
• FOREARM
  To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need. South.
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
• DREARINESS
  1. Sorrow; wretchedness. 2. Dismalness; gloomy solitude.
• DISPLACER
  The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces.