Word Meanings - CHECKERS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.
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- CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - ENDENIZATION
The act of naturalizing. - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - ENDORSER
See INDORSER - ENDOGENY
Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - ENDENIZE
To endenizen. - MOVER
1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These - ENDOTHECIUM
The inner lining of an another cell. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - ENDOSCOPE
An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder. - MOVELESS
Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope. - PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky. - TWELVEPENNY
, Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling. - ENDOPLASM
The protoplasm in the interior of a cell. - PLAYTE
See PLEYT - ENDOCHROME
The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color. - TWELVEMO
See DUODECIMO - AMENDFUL
Much improving. - COMMENDATOR
One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers. - OFFENDANT
An offender. Holland. - GENDER
A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - ACCENDIBILITY
Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability. - PLAY
quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - FRIENDLINESS
The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney. - STIPEND
Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually. - SEA LAVENDER
See MARSH - SHENDFUL
Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. Fabyan. - DECRESCENDO
With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - TENDER
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes