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Word Meanings - AVOWANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking. Cowell.

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  • TAKING
    1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
  • TAKE
    Taken. Chaucer.
  • TAKE-OFF
    An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
  • GOODSHIP
    Favor; grace. Gower.
  • GOODS
    See 3
  • TAKE-IN
    Imposition; fraud.
  • DEFENDANT
    1. Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. With men of courage and with means defendant. Shak. 2. Making defense.
  • DISTRESSING
    Causing distress; painful; unpleasant.
  • TAKE-UP
    That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
  • DISTRESS
    destrece, F. détresse, OF. destrecier to distress, LL. districtiare, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere. See Distrain, 1. Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
  • REPLEVIN
    A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking
  • DISTRESSFUL
    Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation. "Some distressful stroke." Shak. "Distressful cries." Pope. -- Dis*tress"ful*ly, adv.
  • TAKING-OFF
    Removal; murder. See To take off , under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak.
  • TAKEN
    p. p. of Take.
  • DISTRESSEDNESS
    A state of being distressed or greatly pained.
  • TAKER
    One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehended.
  • UNMISTAKABLE
    Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
  • LEAVE-TAKING
    Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
  • MISTAKING
    An error; a mistake. Shak.
  • MISTAKINGLY
    Erroneously.
  • OUTTAKE
    Except. R. of Brunne.
  • STAKTOMETER
    A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.
  • SIDE-TAKING
    A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.
  • DRY GOODS
    A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
  • MISTAKEN
    1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
  • UNDERTAKING
    1. The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business. Hakluyt. 2. That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise. 3. Specifically, the business of an
  • RETAKE
    1. To take or receive again. 2. To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
  • MISTAKER
    One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
  • MISTAKE
    1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought
  • PARTAKER
    1. One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark. 2. An accomplice; an associate; a partner. Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets. Matt. xxiii. 30.
  • PAINSTAKER
    One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay.
  • UNDERTAKE
    1. To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt. To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. Milton. 2. Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly
  • ALESTAKE
    A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." Chaucer.

 

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