Word Meanings - PIGNORATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. Burrill. (more info) pignerate to pledge, fr. pignus, gen. -ous and -eris, a pledge, a 1. The act of pledging or pawning.

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• DOWNWEED
  Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
• DONATOR
  One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• DOG-ROSE
  A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.
• DOG'S-EAR
  The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• DOIT
  1. A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money. Shak. 2. A thing of small value; as, I care not a doit.
• DODECASYLLABIC
  Having twelve syllables.
• DORMANCY
  The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
• DOVECOT; DOVECOTE
  A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• DOGMATIC
  One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
• DOVELET
  A young or small dove. Booth.
• DOMITE
  A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de- Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.
• DOQUET
  A warrant. See Docket.
• DODIPATE; DODIPOLL
  A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.
• DOCTORATE
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• DOMINATOR
  A ruler or ruling power. "Sole dominator of Navarre." Shak. Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world. Camden.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• DOMETT
  A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen. Blakely.
• ADONAI
  A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord". The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton Yhvh, or Ihvh, "the incommunicable name," and in reading substituted "Adonai".
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• ADORABILITY
  Adorableness.
• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
  Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
• PAEDOGENESIS
  Reproduction by young or larval animals.
• HADDOCK
  A marine food fish , allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine
• PAEDOGENETIC
  Producing young while in the immature or larval state; -- said of certain insects, etc.
• MICRODONT
  Having small teeth.
• CONDOLER
  One who condoles.
• ACCELERANDO
  Gradually accelerating the movement.
• TORPEDO
  Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
• GRENADO
  See GRENADE
• JURDON
  Jordan. Chaucer.