Word Meanings - BLUNDERBUSS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
to G. büchse box, gun, E. box; or corrupted fr. D. donderbus 1. A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim. 2. A stupid, blundering fellow.
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- FIREARM
A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder. - FELLOW-COMMONER
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. - NUMBERFUL
Numerous. - EXACTOR
One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor. - EXACTING
Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n. - CORRUPTIONIST
One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith. - CORRUPTIBLE
1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation. - SHORT-WITED
Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment. - INTENDENT
See N - EXACTLY
In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft. - BLUNDERHEAD
A stupid, blundering fellow. - INTENDIMENT
Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser. - SHORT CIRCUIT
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. - FELLOWSHIP
1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. - FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak. - BLUNDERER
One who is apt to blunder. - EXACTION
1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my - HOLDBACK
1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when - SHORT-HANDED
Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers. - SHORTHEAD
A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors. - UNCAPABLE
Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke. - INHOLD
To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh. - HOLD
The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed. - INCAPABLE
Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit - INEXACTLY
In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor. - INEXACT
Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate. - COPYHOLDER
One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader. - HIGH-HOLDER
The flicker; -- called also high-hole. - BLANCH HOLDING
A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise. - BEHOLDER
One who beholds; a spectator. - OFFICEHOLDER
An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.