Word Meanings - PRECAUTIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Taking or using precaution; precautionary. -- Pre*cau"tious*ly, adv. -- Pre*cau"*tious*ness, n.

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• USHERDOM
  The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
• 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.
• USTULATE
  Blackened as if burned.
• PRECAUTION
  praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries
• USURY
  1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii.
• USURPANT
  Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
• USQUEBAUGH
  of life; uisge water + beatha life; akin to Gr. bi`os life. See 1. A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott. 2. A liquor
• USURIOUS
  1. Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person. 2. Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract. -- U*su"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- U*su"ri*ous*ness, n.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• USURER
  1. One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender. If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. Ex. xxii. 25. 2. One who lends money at
• USUFRUCTUARY
  A person who has the use of property and reaps the profits of it. Wharton.
• USURPATURE
  Usurpation. "Beneath man's usurpature." R. Browning.
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• USUCAPTION
  The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law. (more info) use; usu + capere to take: cf. usucapio
• USURPATORY
  Marked by usurpation; usurping.
• USUFRUCT
  The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance. Burrill.
• USURPER
  One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron. A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it.
• PRECAUTIONARY
  Of or pertaining to precaution, or precautions; as, precautionary signals.
• USAGE
  1. The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage. My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty. Shak.
• USBEGS; USBEKS
  A Turkish tribe which about the close of the 15th century conquered, and settled in, that part of Asia now called Turkestan.
• ANGUINEOUS
  Snakelike.
• PROTOGYNOUS
  See PROTEROGYNOUS
• MENISCUS
  A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent.
• PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
  Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
• POLYPHYLLOUS
  Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• PALACIOUS
  Palatial. Graunt.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• RIPARIOUS
  Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
• BUSH
  The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See
• TROUSSEAU
  The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
• DESMOGNATHOUS
  Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• BICUSPID
  One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.
• ANTIBILLOUS
  Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
• HORRISONOUS
  Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
• CARNIVOROUS
  Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
• RUSHED
  Abounding or covered with rushes.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered