Word Meanings - AUGURAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books. "Portents augural." Cowper.
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- BETOKEN
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen - COWPER'S GLANDS
Two small glands discharging into the male urethra. - STAFFISH
Stiff; harsh. Ascham. - BOOKSELLING
The employment of selling books. - BOOKSTAND
1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference. - STAFFIER
An attendant bearing a staff. "Staffiers on foot." Hudibras. - OMINOUS
Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread. - BOOKSHOP
A bookseller's shop. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - BOOKSHELF
A shelf to hold books. - STAFF
The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave. (more info) stab, Icel. stafr, Sw. staf, Dan. stav, Goth. stabs element, rudiment, Skr. sthapay to cause to stand, to place. See Stand, and 1. A long piece of wood; - BOOKSELLER
One who sells books. - BOOKSTORE
A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop. - AUGURSHIP
The office, or period of office, of an augur. Bacon. - AUGURY
1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination. 2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself - AUGURAL
Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books. "Portents augural." Cowper. - STAFFMAN
A workman employed in silk throwing. - SIGNIFICANTLY
In a significant manner. - SIGNIFICANT
1. Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a significant look. It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, - BOOKSTALL
A stall or stand where books are sold. - MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
Having many names or terms. - BEDSTAFF
"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome. - GIBSTAFF
1. A staff to guage water, or to push a boat. 2. A staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage. Bailey. - INSIGNIFICANT
1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. 2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and - INSIGNIFICANTLY
without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper. - BINOMINOUS
Binominal. - CROSS-STAFF
1. An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies. 2. A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets. - ABDOMINOUS
Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper. - WRINGSTAFF
A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts. - FLAGSTAFF
A staff on which a flag is hoisted.