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Word Meanings - ASSUMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A patch; an addition; a piece put on. John Lewis .

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  • ADDITION
    That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
  • PIECER
    1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
  • ADDITIONALLY
    By way of addition.
  • LEWIS; LEWISSON
    1. An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc. 2. A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth. Lewis hole, a hole wider at the bottom than at the mouth, into
  • PIECEMEALED
    Divided into pieces.
  • PIECEMEAL
    1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
  • ADDITIONAL
    Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.
  • PATCHINGLY
    Knavishy; deceitfully.
  • PIECELESS
    Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
  • PATCHY
    Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
  • PATCHERY
    Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy. Shak.
  • PATCHOULI; PATCHOULY
    A mintlike plant of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made. 2. The perfume made from this plant. Patchouly camphor , a substance homologous with and resembling borneol, found in patchouly oil.
  • PIECELY
    In pieces; piecemeal.
  • PATCHWORK
    Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up. Swift.
  • ADDITIONARY
    Additional. Herbert.
  • PATCHER
    One who patches or botches. Foxe.
  • PIECENER
    1. One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills. 2. Same as Piecer, 2.
  • PIECE
    One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn. 6. A castle; a fortified building. Spenser. Of a piece, of the same sort, as if taken from the same whole; like; -- sometimes followed by with. Dryden. -- Piece of eight, the Spanish piaster,
  • PATCH
    A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore. 5. Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn. Employed about this
  • PIECEWORK
    Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed. The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre. R. Jefferies.
  • SPARPIECE
    The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
  • DRIFTPIECE
    An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
  • CODPIECE
    A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
  • PINPATCH
    The common English periwinkle.
  • SURADDITION
    Something added or appended, as to a name. Shak.
  • AFTERPIECE
    The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
  • DISPATCHMENT
    The act of dispatching. State Trials .
  • FIELDPIECE
    A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
  • TALEWISE
    In a way of a tale or story.
  • BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
    A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
  • SHUTTLEWISE
    Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.
  • TIMEPIECE
    A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
  • CHIMNEY-PIECE
    A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.
  • SEAPIECE
    A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture. Addison.

 

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