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Word Meanings - PADRONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A patron; a protector. 2. The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean. 3. A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.

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  • PATRONIZING
    Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv. Thackeray.
  • PATRONYMIC
    Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.
  • PATRONIZER
    One who patronizes.
  • MASTERSHIP
    1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
  • MASTEROUS
    Masterly. Milton.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • PROTECTORIAL
    See PROTECTORAL
  • PATRONAL
    Patron; protecting; favoring. Sir T. Browne.
  • PROTECTORLESS
    Having no protector; unprotected.
  • ITALIAN
    Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language. Italian cloth a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also farmer's satin. -- Italian iron, a heater for fluting frills. -- Italian juice, Calabrian liquorice.
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • STREETWARD
    An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets. Cowell.
  • MASTERFULLY
    In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.
  • SMALLPOX
    A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
  • MASTERSINGER
    One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
  • SMALL
    sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
  • MASTER
    A vessel having masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.
  • SMALLAGE
    A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
  • SMALLY
    In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
  • COASTER
    1. A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade. 2. One who sails near the shore.
  • CREMASTERIC
    Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
  • BAGGAGE MASTER
    One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
  • TOASTMASTER
    A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • TASKMASTER
    One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.
  • BANDMASTER
    The conductor of a musical band.
  • HARBOR MASTER
    An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
  • WALL STREET
    A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center
  • WEIGHMASTER
    One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
  • BEEMASTER
    One who keeps bees.
  • POSTMASTERSHIP
    The office of postmaster.

 

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