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Word Meanings - ACACIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.

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  • REPRESENTABLE
    Capable of being represented.
  • BORNE
    Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.
  • FILLIPEEN
    See PHILOPENA
  • REPRESENTANT
    Appearing or acting for another; representing.
  • 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.
  • MEMENTO MORI
    Lit., remember to die, i.e., that you must die; a warning to be prepared for death; an object, as a death's-head or a personal ornament, usually emblematic, used as a reminder of death.
  • FILLISTER
    1. The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty. Knight. 2. A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.
  • FILL
    One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak.
  • REPRESENTATIVELY
    In a representative manner; vicariously.
  • EMPERORSHIP
    The rank or office of an emperor.
  • FILLING
    Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it. Back filling. See under Back, a. (more info) 1. That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space
  • BYZANTINE
    Of or pertaining to Byzantium. -- n.
  • FILLET
    A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied. Note: A fillet of beef is the under side of the sirlom; also called tenderloin. A fillet of veal or mutton is the fleshy part of the thigh. A fillet of fish is
  • MORTALITY
    1. The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying. When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. Carew. 2. Human life; the life of a mortal being. From this instant There 's nothing serious
  • REPRESENTATIONARY
    Implying representation; representative.
  • REPRESENTER
    1. One who shows, exhibits, or describes. Sir T. Browne. 2. A representative. Swift.
  • REPRESENTATIVE
    Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. (more info) 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
  • FILLIP
    Etym: 1. To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger. "You filip me o' the head." Shak. 2. To snap; to project quickly. The use of
  • IRREPRESENTABLE
    Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
  • UPFILL
    To fill up.
  • FORBORNE
    p. p. of Forbear.
  • SUBORNER
    One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.
  • UNDERFILLING
    The filling below or beneath; the under part of a building. Sir H. Wotton.
  • FULFILLER
    One who fulfills. South.

 

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