Word Meanings - TICKETING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.
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- MINOR
Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor , the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode , that mode, - CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - MINIONLIKE; MINIONLY
Like a minion; daintily. Camden. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - MINTMAN
One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner. - MINETTE
The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs. - MINOS
A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions. - MINUS
Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity. Minus sign , the sign denoting minus, or less, prefixed to negative quantities, or quantities to be subtracted. See Negative sign, under Negative. - MINNESINGER
A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their - ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - MINSTRELSY
1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven." - MINE
1. A subterranean cavity or passage; especially: A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural - MINGE
A small biting fly; a midge. - MINACIOUS
Threatening; menacing. - MINYAN
A quorum, or number necessary, for conducting public worship. - MINIACEOUS; MINACEOUS
Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate. - MINIARD
Migniard. - CALLER
1. Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. Jamieson. 2. Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings. - MINERALIZATION
The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant. - AGMINATE; AGMINATED
Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine. - ALUMINATE
A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen. - PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values - SEEMINGNESS
Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby. - BABY FARMING
The business of keeping a baby farm. - ELIMINATIVE
Relating to, or carrying on, elimination. - NOMINATIVELY
In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - UNBECOMING
Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n. - DOMINATIVE
Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys. - CARBAMINE
An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.