Word Meanings - SIDE-TAKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to SIDE-TAKING)

• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• 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.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• PARTYISM
  Devotion to party.
• FACTIONARY
  Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides. Always factionary on the party of your general. Shak.
• TAKE-IN
  Imposition; fraud.
• FACTIONIST
  One who promotes faction.
• TAKE-UP
  That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
• SIDESMAN
  1. A party man; a partisan. Milton. 2. An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.
• PARTY-COATED
  Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. Shak.
• TAKING-OFF
  Removal; murder. See To take off , under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak.
• TAKEN
  p. p. of Take.
• TAKER
  One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehended.
• FACTIONER
  One of a faction. Abp. Bancroft.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• REFACTION
  Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
• COLLIQUEFACTION
  A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
• OUTTAKE
  Except. R. of Brunne.
• STAKTOMETER
  A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.
• UNSATISFACTION
  Dissatisfaction. Bp. Hall.
• AREFACTION
  The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale.
• SIDE-TAKING
  A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.
• UNDERFACTION
  A subordinate party or faction.