Word Meanings - SUBCONTRACTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Contracted after a former contract. 2. Betrothed for the second time. Shak.
Related words: (words related to SUBCONTRACTED)
- SECOND
1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, - AFTERCAST
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower. - BETROTHAL
The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow. - AFTER
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - CONTRACTIBLE
Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot. - AFTERSHAFT
The hypoptilum. - AFTERPIECE
The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. - SECOND-CLASS
Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage. - AFTER DAMP
An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid. - AFTER-NOTE
One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note. - CONTRACTED
1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted - SECONDER
One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion. - SECONDLY
In the second place. - AFTERWISE
Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late. - SECOND-SIGHT
The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed - AFTERINGS
The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose. - CONTRACTIBLENESS
Contractibility. - AFTER-EATAGE
Aftergrass. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - SUBCONTRACTOR
One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor. - CRAFTER
a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman. - MISINFORMER
One who gives or incorrect information. - THEREAFTER
1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, - INFORMER
One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute. Common informer , one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution