Word Meanings - AGORA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

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• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• GREEK CALENDS; GREEK KALENDS
  A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
• GREEKLING
  A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.
• GREEKISH
  Peculiar to Greece.
• ASSEMBLY
  A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• ANCIENTNESS
  The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
• ANCIENTLY
  1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• PLACENTIOUS
  Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
• MARKETABLE
  1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable. 2. Current in market; as, marketable value. 3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.
• PLACEBO
  The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• NEWMARKET
  A long, closely fitting cloak.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• FENUGREEK
  A plant cultivated for its strong- smelling seeds, which are "now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay." J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants,
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
• NEO-GREEK
  A member of a body of French painters of the middle 19th century. The term is rather one applied by outsiders to certain artists of grave and refined style, such as Hamon and Aubert, than a name adopted by the artists themselves.