Word Meanings - GET-PENNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair. Chapman.

Related words: (words related to GET-PENNY)

• GAINSOME
  1. Gainful. 2. Prepossessing; well-favored. Massinger.
• GAINSAY
  To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• GAINSAYER
  One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• MONEY
  fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and
• SUCCESSFUL
  Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome,
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SOMETHING
  , adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some exrent; at some distance. Shak. I something fear my father's wrath. Shak. We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. Burke. My sense of touch is something coarse. Tennyson.
• GAINSBOROUGH HAT
  A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727-
• MONEYED
  1. Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon. 2. Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke. 3. Consisting
• AFFAIR
  An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle. 4. Action; endeavor. And with his best affair Obeyed the pleasure of the Sun. Chapman. 5. A material object . A certain affair of fine red cloth much worn and
• GAINSTAND
  To withstand; to resist. Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney.
• GAINSTRIVE
  To strive or struggle against; to withstand. Spenser.
• CHAPMAN
  akin to D. koopman, Sw. köpman, Dan. kiöpmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to 1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling
• MONEY-MAKER
  1. One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. 2. One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.
• MONEYLESS
  Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift.
• MONEYWORT
  A trailing plant , with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.
• MONEY-MAKING
  1. Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business. 2. Sussessful in gaining money, and devoted to that aim; as, a money- making man.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• UNSUCCESSFUL
  Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ness, n.
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• AGAIN; AGAINS
  Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
• 'GAINST; GAINST
  A contraction of Against.
• UNDERMONEYED
  Bribed. Fuller.
• SELF-AFFAIRS
  One's own affairs; one's private business. Shak.