Word Meanings - REDEMPTIONER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude. 2. Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.

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• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• STIPULATION
  A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain. Bouvier. Wharton. Syn. -- Agreement; contract; engagement. See Covenant. (more info) 1. The act of stipulating; a contracting or
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• PASSAGEWAY
  A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
• WISHER
  One who wishes or desires; one who expresses a wish. Shak.
• PASSAGE
  1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of
• WISHEDLY
  According to wish; conformably to desire. Chapman.
• WISHY-WASHY
  A weak or thin drink or liquor; wish-wash.
• HIMSELF
  1. An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.
• AMERICANIZE
  To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
• WISHFUL
  1. Having desire, or ardent desire; longing. 2. Showing desire; as, wishful eyes. From Scotland am I stolen, even of pure love To greet mine own land with my wishful sight. Shak. 3. Desirable; exciting wishes. Chapman. -- Wish"ful*ly, adv. --
• SERVITUDE
  A right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right. Note: The object of a servitude is either to suffer something to be done by another, or to omit to do something, with respect to
• EUROPEAN
  A native or an inhabitant of Europe.
• HIMSELF; HIMSELVE; HIMSELVEN
  Themselves. See Hemself. Chaucer.
• AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
  A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.
• WISHTONWISH
  The prairie dog.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• EXSTIPULATE
  Having no stipules. Martyn.
• ILL-WISHER
  One who wishes ill to another; an enemy.
• PLEUROPERITONEUM
  The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum
• RAWISH
  Somewhat raw. Marston.
• INSTIPULATE
  See EXSTIPULATE
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
• ASTIPULATION
  Stipulation; agreement. Bp. Hall.
• FOREWISH
  To wish beforehand.
• SHADOWISH
  Shadowy; vague. Hooker.
• TALLOWISH
  Having the qualities of tallow.
• REMIGRATE
  To migrate again; to go back; to return. Boyle.
• WISTONWISH
  See WISHTONWISH
• WILLOWISH
  Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy. Walton.