Word Meanings - PICCAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths. Ainsworth. (more info) Law)

Related words: (words related to PICCAGE)

• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• LEAVENING
  1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• BREAKAWAY
  A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede. 2. An animal that breaks away from a herd.
• MONEY
  fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and
• LEAVELESS
  Leafless. Carew.
• BREAKDOWN
  1. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called,
• LEAVEN
  alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that 1. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough,
• BREAK-CIRCUIT
  A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.
• BREAK
  brekan, D. breken, OHG. brehhan, G. brechen, Icel.braka to creak, Sw. braka, bräkka to crack, Dan. brække to break, Goth. brikan to break, 1. To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break
• BREAKER
  A small water cask. Totten. 4. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. The breakers were right beneath her bows. Longfellow. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, breaks. I'll be
• MONEYED
  1. Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon. 2. Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke. 3. Consisting
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• OATHBREAKING
  The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
• UPBREAK
  To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.
• PERBREAK
  See PARBREAK