Word Meanings - PENDICLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An inferior tenant; one who rents a pendicle or croft. Jamieson.

Related words: (words related to PENDICLER)

• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• CROFTLAND
  Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised. Jamieson.
• PENDICLER
  An inferior tenant; one who rents a pendicle or croft. Jamieson.
• TENANT
  One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title
• INFERIORITY
  The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
• TENANTLESS
  Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak.
• TENANT SAW
  See TENON
• CROFTER
  One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland.
• CROFT
  A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm. A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground. Wordsworth.
• PENDICLE
  An appendage; something dependent on another; an appurtenance; a pendant. Sir W. Scott.
• INFERIOR
  Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer. Inferior court , a court subject to the jurisdiction of another court known as the superior, or higher, court. -- Inferior letter, Inferior figure , a small letter or figure standing at the
• CROFTING
  Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching. (more info) 1. Croftland. Jamieson.
• CROFTON SYSTEM
  A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.
• TENANTRY
  1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. 2. Tenancy. Ridley.
• TENANTABLE
  Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. -- Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n.
• TER-TENANT
  See TERRE-TENANT
• SUBLIEUTENANT
  An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
• PERPENDICLE
  Something hanging straight down; a plumb line.
• TERRE-TENANT
  One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.
• UNDERTENANT
  The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.
• LIEUTENANT
  of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the
• LIEUTENANT GENERAL
  . An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and
• LIEUTENANTRY
  See LIEUTENANCY
• COTENANT
  A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.