Word Meanings - GREASER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc. 2. A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.
Related words: (words related to GREASER)
- APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - APPLICATIVE
Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. - SPECIFICALLY
In a specific manner. - APPLICANCY
The quality or state of being applicable. - SOMETIMES
1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . . - WORKMANSHIP
1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That - APPLICABILITY
The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied. - WORKBAG
A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - CONTEMPTIBLY
In a contemptible manner. - WORKBENCH
A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop. - CONTEMPTUOUSLY
In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - CONTEMPTUOUS
Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews. - APPLICATORILY
By way of application. - 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. - WORKDAY
A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day. - CONTEMPT
Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the - ROCKWORK
Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough. - UNEMPLOYMENT
Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent. - CHECKWORK
Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard. - JOURNEYWORK
Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade. - FRETWORK
Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. - RUBBLEWORK
Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - CUTWORK
An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed. - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - BOBBINWORK
Work woven with bobbins. - STOCKWORK
A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories. - LAPWORK
Work in which one part laps over another. Grew. - CHAINWORK
Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work. - PANELWORK
Wainscoting.