Word Meanings - FREE-SPOKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Accustomed to speak without reserve. Bacon. -- Free"-spo`ken-ness, n.

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• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• ACCUSTOMABLE
  Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.
• SPEAKER
  1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
• ACCUSTOMABLY
  According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• RESERVEE
  One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.
• ACCUSTOMARY
  Usual; customary. Featley.
• SPEAK
  1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13. 2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell;
• WITHOUT
  1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
• SPEAKING
  1. The act of uttering words. 2. Public declamation; oratory.
• RESERVER
  One who reserves.
• RESERVE CITY
  In the national banking system of the United States, any of certain cities in which the national banks are required (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve than the minimum required of all other banks. The banks in certain of the
• RESERVED
  1. Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater. 2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank. To
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
• DISACCUSTOM
  To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
• FORSPEAK
  1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.
• FORESPEAKING
  A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet.
• UNSPEAK
  To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay. Shak.
• UNRESERVED
  Not reserved; not kept back; not withheld in part; unrestrained. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ness, n.
• BESPEAK
  besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be- + sprecan to speak. See 1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was
• PRESERVER
  1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. 2. One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game.