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Word Meanings - TERGIVERSATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. Bailey. (more info) to turn one's back, to shift; tergum back + versare, freq. of vertere
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- PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - PITCHERFUL
The quantity a pitcher will hold. - PITCHINESS
Blackness, as of pitch; darkness. - PITCHFORK
A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - SHIFT
divide; akin to LG. & D. schiften to divide, distinguish, part Icel. skipta to divide, to part, to shift, to change, Dan skifte, Sw. skifta, and probably to Icel. skifa to cut into slices, as n., a 1. To divide; to distribute; to apportion. To - INSERT
To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper. These - PITCHWORK
The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product. - PITCHER
1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically , the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. Mortimer. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - PLANTOCRACY
Government by planters; planters, collectively. - PLACE
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe - PLANTERSHIP
The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies. - SHIFTER
An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions. An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc. (more info) - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - REINSERT
To insert again. - AUCTION PITCH
A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster. - WATER PITCHER
One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower is the type. (more info) 1. A pitcher for water. - LAMINIPLANTAR
Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks. - COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like