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.