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Word Meanings - POINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To appoint. Spenser.

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  • MERCY
    mercedis, hire, pay, reward, LL., equiv. to misericordia pity, mercy. L. merces is probmerere to deserve, acquire. See Merit, and cf. 1. Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict
  • TITLELESS
    Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
  • MERCURIALISM
    The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of mercury, or by exposure to its fumes, as in mining or smelting.
  • MERCAPTAL
    Any one of a series of compounds of mercaptans with aldehydes.
  • IMPLY
    1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
  • MERLON
    One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.
  • SUGGESTER
    One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
  • TITLED
    Having or bearing a title.
  • SUGGEST
    1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
  • INTIMATE
    corresponding to the compar. interior cf. F. intime. The form 1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton. 2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate
  • MEROPODITE
    The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.
  • MERCENARIA
    The quahog.
  • EVENT
    1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
  • TALENT
    tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
  • MEROVINGIAN
    Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France. -- n.
  • MERCHANDISABLE
    Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.
  • MERELY
    1. Purely; unmixedly; absolutely. Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked. Chapman. 2. Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only. Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to obige your friends. Swift. Syn. -- Solely; simply;
  • MEROCELE
    Hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia .
  • TITLER
    A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
  • MERCURIAL
    Caused by the use of mercury; as, mercurial sore mouth. (more info) 1. Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament. A mercurial
  • GRAMERCY
    A word formerly used to express thankfulness, with surprise; many thanks. Gramercy, Mammon, said the gentle knight. Spenser.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • COMMERCIALLY
    In a commercial manner.
  • ANTIMERE
    One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.
  • SKIMMER
    Any species of longwinged marine birds of the genus Rhynchops, allied to the terns, but having the lower mandible compressed and much longer than the upper one. These birds fly rapidly along the surface of the water, with the lower mandible
  • IMPREVENTABLE
    Not preventable; invitable.
  • PHYSIOGNOMER
    Physiognomist.
  • BECHE DE MER
    The trepang.
  • HAMMER LOCK
    A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent.
  • DEFAMER
    One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
  • REMERGE
    To merge again. "Remerging in the general Soul." Tennyson.
  • PENTAMERAN
    One of the Pentamera.
  • INNUMEROUS
    Innumerable. Milton.
  • CASHMERETTE
    A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere.
  • PREVENTATIVE
    That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.

 

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