Word Meanings - BURGHBOTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.

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• TOWARD; TOWARDS
  1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
• CONTRIBUTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.
• TOWARDS
  See TOWARD
• TOWARDNESS
  Quality or state of being toward.
• DEFENSER
  Defender. Foxe.
• REPAIR
  fr. L. repatriare to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re- re- + patria native country, fr. pater father. See Father, and 1. To return. I thought . . . that he repaire should again. Chaucer. 2. To go; to betake one's self; to resort;
• REPAIRABLE
  Reparable. Gauden.
• TOWARDLY
  See DRYDEN
• BUILDING
  1. The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster. Bp. Hall. 2. The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture. The execution of works of architecture
• TOWARDLINESS
  The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh.
• CONTRIBUTION PLAN
  A plan of distributing surplus by giving to each policy the excess of premiums and interest earned thereon over the expenses of management, cost of insurance, and the policy value at the date of computation. This excess is called the contribution
• DEFENSE; DEFENCE
  The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action. 5. Act or skill in making
• BUILDER
  One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc.
• REPAIRER
  One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends.
• BUILD
  bilden, AS. byldan to build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. bol farm, abode, Dan. bol small farm, OSw. bol, böle, house, dwelling, fr. root 1. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a
• TOWARD
  1. Approaching; coming near. "His toward peril." Spenser. 2. Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth. 3. Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant. Why, that is spoken like a toward prince.
• REPAIRMENT
  Act of repairing.
• DEFENSELESS
  Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected. -- De*fense"less*ly, adv. -- De*fense"less*ness, n.
• DEFENSE
  Better manned and more strongly defensed. Hales.
• CONTRIBUTION
  An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country. These sums, . . . and the forced contributions paid by luckless peasants, enabled him to keep his straggling troops together. Motley. (more info) 1. The act
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• OUTBUILD
  To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
• OVERBUILD
  1. To build over. Milton. 2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand.
• DISREPAIR
  A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.
• UNDERBUILDER
  A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.
• REBUILDER
  One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.
• SELF-DEFENSE
  The act of defending one's own person, property, or reputation. In self-defense , in protection of self, -- it being permitted in law to a party on whom a grave wrong is attempted to resist the wrong, even at the peril of the life of
• REBUILD
  To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.
• UNBUILD
  To demolish; to raze. "To unbuild the city." Shak.
• UNTOWARDLY
  Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke.