Word Meanings - PAYABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. Drayton. Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. South. That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value. Matured; now due.

Related words: (words related to PAYABLE)

• SOUTHWEST
  Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• PAYABLE
  1. That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. Drayton. Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. South. That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value. Matured; now due.
• MATURENESS
  The state or quality of being mature; maturity.
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• MATURITY
  1. The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan. 2. Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note,
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• VALUE
  1. To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc. The mind doth value every moment. Bacon. The queen is valued thirty thousand strong. Shak. The king must
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• THANKSGIVER
  One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow.
• THANKSGIVE
  To give or dedicate in token of thanks. Mede.
• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• MATURATIVE
  A remedy promoting maturation; a maturant.
• HEMATURIA
  Passage of urine mingled with blood.
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
• LIMATURE
  1. The act of filing. 2. That which is filed off; filings. Johnson.
• THAUMATURGICS
  Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances.
• RING ARMATURE
  An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.
• ACCLIMATURE
  The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. Caldwell.