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Word Meanings - PARAGOGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.

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  • SYLLABLE
    1. An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked
  • ADDITION
    That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
  • LETTERER
    One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
  • ADDITIONALLY
    By way of addition.
  • WITHOUT-DOOR
    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • WITHOUTFORTH
    Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
  • LETTERURE
    Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
  • LETTERN
    See LECTURN
  • LETTER
    One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
  • ADDITIONAL
    Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.
  • LETTERPRESS
    Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
  • LETTERLESS
    1. Not having a letter. 2. Illiterate. E. Waterhouse.
  • WITHOUTEN
    Without. Chaucer.
  • LETTERWOOD
    The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum , found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for
  • LETTERING
    1. The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting. 2. The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign.
  • WITHOUT
    1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
  • LETTERGRAM
    See ABOVE
  • ADDITIONARY
    Additional. Herbert.
  • LETTERED
    1. Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered" Shak. The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman.
  • BLACK LETTER
    The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
  • TRISYLLABLE
    A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.
  • DISSYLLABLE
    A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.
  • SURADDITION
    Something added or appended, as to a name. Shak.
  • QUINQUESYLLABLE
    A word of five syllables.
  • DODECASYLLABLE
    A word consisting of twelve syllables.
  • OCTOSYLLABLE
    Octosyllabic.
  • QUADRISYLLABLE
    A word consisting of four syllables. De Quincey.
  • SEA LETTER
    The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
  • UNDERLETTER
    A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.

 

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