Word Meanings - BARBIERS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.

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• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• CHRONICLE
  The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings. Syn. - Register; record; annals. See History. (more info) 1. An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time. 2. A narrative of
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• CHRONIC
  1. Relating to time; according to time. 2. Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual. Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• CONSIDER
  consider, view attentively, prob. fr. con- + sidus, sideris, star, constellation; orig., therefore, to look at the stars. See Sidereal, 1. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• COASTING
  Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast. Coasting trade, trade carried on by water between neighboring ports of the same country, as distinguished fron foreign trade or trade involving long voyages. -- Coasting vessel,
• INDIAMAN
  A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• COAST
  1. The side of a thing. Sir I. Newton. 2. The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. Deut. xi. 24. 3. The seashore, or land near it.
• CONSIDERABLE
  1. Worthy of consideration, borne in mind, or attended to. It is considerable, that some urns have had inscriptions on them expressing that the lamps were burning. Bp. Wilkins. Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration. Tillotson. 2.
• CONSIDERER
  One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. Milton.
• INDIA STEEL
  See WOOTZ
• CONSIDERATOR
  One who considers. Sir T. Browne.
• CONSIDERATIVE
  Considerate; careful; thoughtful. I love to be considerative. B. Jonson.
• COASTWISE; COASTWAYS
  By way of, or along, the coast.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• INCONSIDERATION
  Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
• LINDIA
  A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
• ACHRONIC
  See ACRONYC
• UNCONSIDERATE
  Inconsiderate; heedless; careless. Daniel. -- Un`con*sid"er*ate*ness, n. Hales.
• INCONSIDERATE
  1. Not considerate; not attentive to safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct. It is a very unhappy token of
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.