Word Meanings - CHAMPERTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.

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• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• SUGARPLUM
  A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
• SUFFRAGAN
  A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop. (more info) 1. An assistant.
• SUBARYTENOID
  Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• SUMMATION
  The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate. Of this series no summation is possible to a finite intellect. De Quincey.
• SUNDRILY
  In sundry ways; variously.
• SUPERFETE
  To conceive after a former conception. Howell.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• SUSURRINGLY
  In the manner of a whisper.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• SUPERCELESTIAL
  1. Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven. Waterland. 2. Higher than celestial; superangelic.
• SUBLATE
  To take or carry away; to remove. E. Hall.
• SUBBRONCHIAL
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.
• SUPERSTITIONIST
  One addicted to superstition. "Blind superstitionists." Dr. H. More.
• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• SUPPING
  1. The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper. 2. That which is supped; broth. Holland.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• SUPINITY
  Supineness. Sir T. Browne.
• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.