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Word Meanings - SUBCONTRACTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Contracted after a former contract. 2. Betrothed for the second time. Shak.

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  • 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

 

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