Word Meanings - EASTERLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The smew. (more info) 1. A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic. Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us.
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The smew. (more info) 1. A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic. Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed. 2. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England. Crabb.
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- CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - COUNTRY-DANCE
See MACUALAY - ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - COUNTRY SEAT
A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city. - RESPECTER
One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x. - CALL
callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular - CALLIOPE
The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) + - CALLOT
A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson. - CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton. - NATIVE
1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances - CALLOSE
Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots. - CALLIDITY
Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart. - COUNTRY CLUB
A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports. - NATIVE STEEL
A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore. - COUNTRYSIDE
A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore. - CALLIGRAPHY
Fair or elegant penmanship. - ELIMINATIVE
Relating to, or carrying on, elimination. - NOMINATIVELY
In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - EMANATIVE
Issuing forth; effluent. - DOMINATIVE
Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - UNIVOCALLY
In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall. - PARABOLICALLY
1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola. - STEREOGRAPHICALLY
In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - REGNATIVE
Ruling; governing. - ACRONYCALLY
In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ. - COORDINATIVE
Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.