Word Meanings - GUARDIANESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
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- PLACODERMATA
See PLACODERMI - FEMALE
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or - GUARDIAN
One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz., - GUARDIANSHIP
The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch. - TRUSTY
1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - GUARDIANESS
A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl. - 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. - PLACID
Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay. - GUARDIANLESS
Without a guardian. Marston. - PLACIT
A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn. - PLACOPHORA
A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - WATCHFUL
Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful - PLACIDNESS
The quality or state of being placid. - 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 - PLACOIDIAN
One of the placoids. - PLACABLENESS
The quality of being placable. - PLACITORY
Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law. Clayton. - UNPLACABLE
Implacable. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - 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 - COGUARDIAN
A joint guardian. - APLACENTAL
Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.