Word Meanings - CANTERBURY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury , and contains the shrine of Thomas à Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made. 2. A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose

Additional info about word: CANTERBURY

1. A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury , and contains the shrine of Thomas à Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made. 2. A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc. Canterbury ball , a species of Campanula of several varietes, cultivated for its handsome bell-shaped flowers. -- Canterbury gallop, a gentle gallop such as was used by pilgrims riding, to Canterbury; a canter. -- Canterbury table, one of the tales which Chaucer puts into the mouths of certain pilgrims to Canterbury. Hence, any tale told by travelers pass away the time.

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• HOLD
  The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
• THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG
  See ABOVE
• MUSIC HALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• 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
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• 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.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• CANTERBURY
  1. A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury , and contains the shrine of Thomas à Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made. 2. A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose
• HOLDER
  One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
• SHRINE
  1. A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint. 2. Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like. Too weak the sacred shrine guard. Byron. 3. A place or object hallowed
• MUSIC DRAMA
  An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• MUSICALE
  A social musical party.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• INHOLD
  To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
• BYSTANDER
  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.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• 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.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• CANDLEHOLDER
  One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.
• ALMSGIVING
  The giving of alms.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• FOREHOLDING
  Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. L'Estrange.