Word Meanings - WINNINISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The land-locked variety of the common salmon.

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• LOCKOUT
  The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• COMMONISH
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• LOCKER
  1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
• LOCKET
  1. A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament. 2. A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
• LOCK-WEIR
  A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.
• COMMONITION
  Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey.
• LOCKAGE
  1. Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks. 2. Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal. 3. Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal. The entire lock will be about fifty feet. De Witt Clinton.
• LOCKEN
  of Lock. Chaucer.
• COMMONAGE
  The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke.
• LOCKSMITH
  An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.
• COMMONS
  1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled chasses or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. 'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. Shak. The word commons in its present
• COMMONPLACE
  Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
• LOCKY
  Having locks or tufts. Sherwood.
• COMMON SENSE
  See SENSE
• COMMONNESS
  1. State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight. 2. Triteness; meanness.
• LOCKJAW
  A contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• LANDLOCK
  To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.
• HAMMER LOCK
  A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent.
• BLOCKISH
  Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n.
• ELFLOCK
  Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• INTERCOMMON
  To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
• BLOCKING
  1. The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks. 2. Blocks used to support temporarily.
• WATER CLOCK
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• GOLDYLOCKS
  A plant of several species of the genus Chrysocoma; -- so called from the tufts of yellow flowers which terminate the stems; also, the Ranunculus auricomus, a kind of buttercup.
• TAILBLOCK
  A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
• DOUBLE-LOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
• INLOCK
  To lock in, or inclose.
• BELOCK
  To lock, or fasten as with a lock. Shak.
• BLOCK TIN
  See TIN
• KEDLOCK
  See CHARLOCK
• WATER HEMLOCK
  A poisonous umbelliferous plant of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus. A poisonous plant resembling the above.