Word Meanings - HEADNOTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court.

Related words: (words related to HEADNOTE)

• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• SHOWROOM
  A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
• SHOWILY
  In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
• OPINIONATE
  Opinionated.
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• ABSTRACTEDLY
  In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
• COURTEPY
  A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
• COURTBRED
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
• SHOWING
  1. Appearance; display; exhibition. 2. Presentation of facts; statement. J. S. Mill.
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• SHOWMAN
  One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
• COURTESANSHIP
  Harlotry.
• COURT-MARTIAL
  A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
• ABSTRACTITIOUS
  Obtained from plants by distillation. Crabb.
• ABSTRACTNESS
  The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke.
• COURTLIKE
  After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• RAREE-SHOW
  A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.
• OUTCOURT
  An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.
• THUNDERSHOWER
  A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.