Word Meanings - VOTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
a. & n. from Vote, v. Voting paper, a form of ballot containing the names of more candidates than there are offices to be filled, the voter making a mark against the preferred names.
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- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - THERETO
1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer. - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - BALLOTER
One who votes by ballot. - VOTIVE
Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet. "Votive incense." Keble. We reached a votive stone, that bears the name Of Aloys Reding. Wordsworth. Embellishments of flowers and votive - THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer. - THEREOUT
1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer. - FILLIPEEN
See PHILOPENA - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - FILLIBEG
A kilt. See Filibeg. - FILLETING
The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively. - FILLER
One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer. - THEREUNDER
Under that or this. - CANDIDATESHIP
Candidacy. - NAMESAKE
One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another. - VOTARESS
A woman who is a votary. Shak. - 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, - VOTIST
One who makes a vow. Chapman. - INDEVOTE
Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - DEVOTIONALLY
In a devotional manner; toward devotion. - ETHEREALITY
The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp. - TAXGATHERER
One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n. - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.