Word Meanings - WATCHMAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.

WHOSESOEVER
The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
OCCUPATION
1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
REPAIRABLE
Reparable. Gauden.
WHOSE
The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
WATCHES
The leaves of Sarace. See Trumpets.
REPAIR
fr. L. repatriare to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re- re- + patria native country, fr. pater father. See Father, and 1. To return. I thought . . . that he repaire should again. Chaucer. 2. To go; to betake one's self; to resort;
REPAIRER
One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends.
REPAIRMENT
Act of repairing.
DISREPAIR
A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.
INOCCUPATION
Want of occupation.
DISOCCUPATION
The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
PREOCCUPATION
1. The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession. 2. Anticipation of objections. South.