Word Meanings - DEFERMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of delaying; postponement. My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.
Related words: (words related to DEFERMENT)
- INSTANT
upon, to press upon; pref. in- in, on + stare to stand: cf. F. in. 1. Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. Rom. xii. 12. I am beginning to be very instant for some sort - 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 - JOINTWEED
A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers. - INSTANTLY
1. Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately. Macaulay. 2. With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly. "They besought him instantly." Luke vii. 4. Syn. -- Directly; immediately; at once. See Directly. - JOINTURELESS
Having no jointure. - GRIEFFUL
Full of grief or sorrow. Sackvingle. - JOINER
1. One who, or that which, joins. 2. One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork necessary for the finishing of buildings. "One Snug, the joiner." Shak. 3. A wood-working machine, for - JOINTING
The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule , a long straight rule, - GRIEFLESS
Without grief. Huloet. - SUCKLING
1. A young child or animal nursed at the breast. 2. A small kind of yellow clover common in Southern Europe. - SUCKLE
A teat. Sir T. Herbert. - DEFERMENT
The act of delaying; postponement. My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling. - JOINT
A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification. (more info) 1. The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting - INSTANTER
Immediately; instantly; at once; as, he left instanter. - BUSINESSLIKE
In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods. - SUCKLER
An animal that suckles its young; a mammal. - JOINTURESS
See BOUVIER - JOINERY
The art, or trade, of a joiner; the work of a joiner. A piece of joinery . . . whimsically dovetailed. Burke. - INSTANTANEOUS
1. Done or occurring in an instant, or without any perceptible duration of time; as, the passage of electricity appears to be instantaneous. His reason saw With instantaneous view, the truth of things. Thomson. 2. At or during a given instant; - JOINTED
Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty; as, a jointed doll; jointed structure. "The jointed herbage." J. Philips. -- Joint"ed*ly, adv. - UNJOINT
To disjoint. - STRAIGHT-JOINT
Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring - DISJOINT
Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton. - HONEYSUCKLE
One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds; - AGRIEF
In grief; amiss. Chaucer. - HEARTGRIEF
Heartache; sorrow. Milton. - UNJOINTED
Having no joint or articulation; as, an unjointed stem. (more info) 1. Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent. Shak. 2. Etym: - SURREJOIN
To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder. - COINSTANTANEOUS
Happening at the same instant. C. Darwin. - DISJOINTED
Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n. - LAP-JOINTED
Having a lap joint, or lap joints, as many kinds of woodwork and metal work. - REJOINT
1. To reunite the joints of; to joint anew. Barrow. 2. Specifically , to fill up the joints of, as stones in buildings when the mortar has been dislodged by age and the action of the weather. Gwilt. - UNJOIN
To disjoin.