Word Meanings - BLANCHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.
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- PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - MONEYER
1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges. - PURPOSE
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - MONEYAGE
1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage. - MONEY
fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - CHEMICALLY
According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation. - MONEYED
1. Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon. 2. Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke. 3. Consisting - PURPOSER
1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends. - PURPOSELY
With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they - MONEY-MAKER
1. One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. 2. One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive. - CHEMICAL
Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical comnbinations. Chemical attraction or affinity. See under Attraction. - PREPARATION
The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. - PURPOSEFUL
Important; material. "Purposeful accounts." Tylor. -- Pur"pose*ful*ly, adv. - MONEYLESS
Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift. - MONEYWORT
A trailing plant , with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils. - MONEY-MAKING
The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth. Obstinacy in money-making. Milman. - PURPOSEDLY
In a purposed manner; according to purpose or design; purposely. A poem composed purposedly of the Trojan war. Holland. - IMPREPARATION
Want of preparation. Hooker. - IATROCHEMICAL
Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists. - CROSS-PURPOSE
A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info) - DISPURPOSE
To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer. - MICRO-CHEMICAL
Of or pertaining to micro-chemistry; as, a micro-chemical test. - ALCHEMIC; ALCHEMICAL
Of or relating to alchemy. - SUPERCHEMICAL
Above or beyond chemistry; inexplicable by chemical laws. J. Le Conte. - PHYSICOCHEMICAL
Involving the principles of both physics and chemistry; dependent on, or produced by, the joint action of physical and chemical agencies. Huxley. - THERMOCHEMIC; THERMOCHEMICAL
Of or pertaining to thermochemistry; obtained by, or employed in, thermochemistry. - UNDERMONEYED
Bribed. Fuller. - ZOOCHEMICAL; ZOOECHEMICAL
Pertaining to zoöchemistry.