Word Meanings - BYSTANDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
Related words: (words related to BYSTANDER)
- SPECTATORSHIP
1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak. - BUSINESS
The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's - BEHOLDER
One who beholds; a spectator. - TRANSACTOR
One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business. Derham. - PALFREY
palafredus, parafredus, from L. paraveredus a horse for extraordinary 1. A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse. Chaucer. 2. A small saddle horse for ladies. Spenser. Call the host and bid him bring - CONCERNEDLY
In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically. - SCATTERLING
One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser. - SCATTER-BRAIN
A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention. - BUSINESSLIKE
In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods. - CONCERNING
1. That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest. "Our everlasting concernments." I. Watts. To mix with thy concernments I desist. Milton. 2. Importance; moment; consequence. Let every action of concernment to begun with - TRANSACT
To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent. - SPECTATOR
One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. "Devised and played to take spectators." Shak. Syn. -- Looker-on; beholder; observer; witness. - ADDRESS
To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more - SCATTERGOOD
One who wastes; a spendthrift. - OBSERVER
1. One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer. The observed of all observers. Shak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By - CONCERNED
Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend. - ADDRESSEE
One to whom anything is addressed. - SCATTERING
Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes. - SCATTER
Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, - LOOKER
One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax. - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - UNCONCERNMENT
The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South. - INCONCERNING
Unimportant; trifling. "Trifling and inconcerning matters." Fuller. - MISOBSERVER
One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly. - HEADDRESS
1. A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire. Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. Addison. 2. A manner of dressing the hair or