Word Meanings - EXHUME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. Mantell.

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• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• DISINTEREST
  Disinterested. The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor.
• BURIAL
  1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff . 2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• DISINTERMENT
  The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.
• PLACENTIOUS
  Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
• DISINTERESS
  To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage. (more info) in; pref. dés- + intéresser to interest, fr. L. interesse
• PLACEBO
  The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
• GROUNDLY
  Solidly; deeply; thoroughly. Those whom princes do once groundly hate, Let them provide to die as sure us fate. Marston.
• GROUNDING
  The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• TREE BURIAL
  Disposal of the dead by placing the corpse among the branches of a tree or in a hollow trunk, a practice among many primitive peoples.
• BACKGROUND
  The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. Note: The distance in a picture is usually divided into foreground, middle distance, and background. Fairholt. 3. Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
• UNDERGROUND
  The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space. A spirit raised from depth of underground. Shak.
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.