Word Meanings - CREEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule. (more info) 1. An osier basket, such as anglers use. Sir W. Scott.

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• HOLD
  The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
• PAYEE
  The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.
• BASKET BALL
  A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.
• PAYABLE
  1. That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. Drayton. Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. South. That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value. Matured; now due.
• ROVINGLY
  In a wandering manner.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• 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
• OSIERED
  Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks. Collins.
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• PAYSE
  To poise. Spenser.
• PAYNE'S PROCESS
  A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.
• PAYNDEMAIN
  The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman. (more info) own, private. See Payn, and Demesne. Said to be so called from the
• PAYER
  One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.
• HOLDER
  One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
• PAYOR
  See PAYER
• OSIER
  A kind of willow growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow. One of the long, pliable twigs of this
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• PAYMENT
  1. The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation. No man envieth the payment of a debt. Bacon. 2. That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise;
• ROVINGNESS
  The state of roving.
• BASKETRY
  The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• CORROVAL
  A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.
• INHOLD
  To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• PROVINCIALLY
  In a provincial manner.
• CONTROVERSAL
  1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle.
• APPROVING
  Expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile. -- Ap*prov"ing*ly, adv.
• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline