Word Meanings - PHILOPENA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social game Note: One of the ways may be stated as follows: A person finding a nut with two kernels eats one, and gives the other to a person of the opposite sex, and then whichever says philopena

Additional info about word: PHILOPENA

A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social game Note: One of the ways may be stated as follows: A person finding a nut with two kernels eats one, and gives the other to a person of the opposite sex, and then whichever says philopena first at the next meeting wins the present. The name is also applied to the kernels eaten. (more info) LG. vielliebken, or D. veelliebken, a philopena, literally, much loved; but influenced by Gr. poena penalty, from an idea that the

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• SOCIALIST; SOCIALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.
• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• STATUED
  Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
• STATABLE
  That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• FINDER
  One who, or that which, finds; specifically , a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.
• PRESENT
  one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• PRESENTIVE
  Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
• STATISTICS
  Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• PRESENTANEOUS
  Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
• STATANT
  In a standing position; as, a lion statant.
• STATHMOGRAPH
  A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train. Knight.
• PRESENTLY
  1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree
• SOCIALIZE
  1. To render social. 2. To subject to, or regulate by, socialism.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• ESTATLICH; ESTATLY
  Stately; dignified. Chaucer.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• HEMASTATICS
  Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• ENSTATE
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• BIOSTATICS
  The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena.
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• SMOTHER
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• TORPEDO STATION
  A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.