Word Meanings - PUNNOLOGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art or practice of punning; paronomasia. Pope.

PRACTICER
1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
PRACTICED
1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
PRACTICE
A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
PUNNOLOGY
The art or practice of punning; paronomasia. Pope.
PARONOMASIA
A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning. Dryden.
PUNNET
A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.
PUNNER
A punster. Beau. & Fl.
MALPRACTICE
Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
MISPRACTICE
Wrong practice.
MALEPRACTICE
See MALPRACTICE