Word Meanings - DEFERMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of delaying; postponement. My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.

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• 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
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• INSTANTER
  Immediately; instantly; at once; as, he left instanter.
• 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.