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1. The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability. 2. A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. You can produce acquittances For such a sum, from special

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1. The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability. 2. A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. You can produce acquittances For such a sum, from special officers. Shak.

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  • DEMANDRESS
    A woman who demands.
  • WRITING
    1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
  • CLEARLY
    In a clear manner.
  • RECEIPTOR
    One who receipts; specifically , one who receipts for property which has been taken by the sheriff.
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • CLEARER
    A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
  • PRODUCEMENT
    Production.
  • WRITATIVE
    Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
  • DEMAND
    1. The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand. The demand by the word of the holy ones. Dan. iv. 17. He
  • CLEAR-HEADED
    Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
  • WRITER
    1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
  • EVIDENCER
    One whi gives evidence.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
    Acute discernment.
  • WRIT
    3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
  • WRITHLE
    To wrinkle. Shak.
  • RECEIPT
    1. The act of receiving; reception. "At the receipt of your letter." Shak. 2. Reception, as an act of hospitality. Thy kind receipt of me. Chapman. 3. Capability of receiving; capacity. It has become a place of great receipt. Evelyn. 4. Place of
  • RELEASE
    To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
  • OTHER
    andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
  • CLEAR-SEEING
    Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • INEVIDENCE
    Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
  • ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • REWRITE
    To write again. Young.
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • TYPEWRITING
    The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
  • PLAYWRITER
    A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
  • STORY-WRITER
    1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • UNSPECIALIZED
    Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.
  • ISOTHERMAL
    Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram

 

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