Word Meanings - PICKLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Preserved in a pickle.

PRESERVATIVE
Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc.
PRESERVABLE
Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.
PRESERVER
1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. 2. One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game.
PRESERVATION
The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. Give us particulars of thy
PICKLE
See PICLE
PICKLE-HERRING
1. A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring. Shak. 2. A merry-andrew; a buffoon. Addison.
PRESERVATORY
Preservative. Bp. Hall.
PRESERVE
1. To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect. O Lord, thou preserved man and beast. Ps. xxxvi. 6. Now, good angels preserve the king. Shak. 2. To save from decay by the use of some
PICKLED
Preserved in a pickle.
PICKLER
One who makes pickles.
PICLE; PICKLE
A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close.
SELF-PRESERVATION
The preservation of one's self from destruction or injury.
LIFE-PRESERVER
An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water. -- Life"-pre*serv`ing, a.