Word Meanings - RAGPICKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.
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- LIVINGLY
In a living state. Sir T. Browne. - LIVELY
1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier - PICKABACK
A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies. - LIVRAISON
A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part. - LIVINGNESS
The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening. - PICK-FAULT
One who seeks out faults. - LIVED
Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived. - LIVE
liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. lebn, Dan. leve, Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth. liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the - LIVERWORT
1. A ranunculaceous plant with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups. 2. A flowerless plant , having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. Note: From this plant many others of the same - PICKEER
To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. Bp. Burnet. (more info) cattle, ultimately fr. L. pecus, pecoris, cattle; cf. F. picorée, Sp. - LIVING PICTURE
A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art. - PICKPACK
Pickaback. - PICKET
A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket. 4. By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept - PICKPENNY
A miser; also, a sharper. Dr. H. More. - PICK-UP; PICKUP
= Brush b. 3. One that is picked up, as a meal hastily got up for the occasion, a chance acquaintance, an informal game, etc. (more info) 1. Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes - LIVERY
gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, fr. livrer to deliver, L. liberare to set free, in LL., to The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements. The writ by which possession is obtained. Note: It - LIVER-GROWN
Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison. - LIVE-FOREVER
A plant with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine. - PICKSY
See PIXY - PICKTHANK
One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively. Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers. Shak. - DELIVERANCE
Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; - REDELIVER
1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak. - OLIVARY
Like an olive. Olivary body , an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive. - OLIVINE
A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks. - COD LIVER
The liver of the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition. - OLIVERIAN
An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay. - DELIVERABLE
Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale. - REDELIVERY
1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation. - UNPICK
To pick out; to undo by picking. - OLIVED
Decorated or furnished with olive trees. T. Warton. - OLIVIN
A complex bitter gum, found on the leaves of the olive tree; -- called also olivite. - OLIVEWOOD
The wood of the olive. An Australian name given to the hard white wood of certain trees of the genus Elæodendron, and also to the trees themselves.