Word Meanings - DUMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. Smart.

Related words: (words related to DUMP)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• 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
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• CHUCK
  1. To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck. 2. To chuckle; to laugh. Marston.
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• COUNTERJUMPER
  A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• COUNTER BRACE
  The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
• COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
  See A
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• FARTHERMOST
  Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.
• COUNTER
  A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a. (more info) Note:
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.