Word Meanings - DISTRAINOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone.

Related words: (words related to DISTRAINOR)

• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• GOODSHIP
  Favor; grace. Gower.
• PARTYISM
  Devotion to party.
• GOODS
  See 3
• DISTRAINOR
  One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone.
• DISTRAINT
  The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress. Abbott.
• DISTRAIN
  press, oppress, force, fr. L. distringere, districtum, to draw asunder, hinder, molest, LL., to punish severely; di- = stringere to draw tight, press together. See Strain, and cf. Distress, District, 1. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon
• PARTY-COATED
  Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. Shak.
• DISTRAINABLE
  Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained. Blackstone.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• DRY GOODS
  A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
• PURPARTY
  A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener. I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds. Walpole.
• PROGRESSIVE PARTY
  The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates
• PEOPLE'S PARTY
  A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.
• CONSUMER'S GOODS
  Economic goods that directly satisfy human wants or desires, such as food, clothes, pictures, etc.; -- called also consumption goods, or goods of the first order, and opposed to producer's goods.
• PRODUCER'S GOODS
  Goods that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting.
• REDISTRAINER
  One who distrains again.
• DRESS GOODS
  A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.