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Word Meanings - INGANNATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cheat; deception. Sir T. Brown.

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  • BROWNBACK
    The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
  • CHEATABLE
    Capable of being cheated.
  • BROWNIE
    An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
  • BROWNNESS
    The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
  • BROWNWORT
    A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
  • BROWNY
    Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.
  • CHEATABLENESS
    Capability of being cheated.
  • BROWNIAN
    Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water
  • BROWN THRUSH
    A common American singing bird , allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
  • BROWNIST
    A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.
  • BROWNISH
    Somewhat brown.
  • DECEPTION
    1. The act of deceiving or misleading. South. 2. The state of being deceived or misled. There is one thing relating either to the action or enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to deception. South. 3. That which deceives or is intended to
  • BROWN
    1. To make brown or dusky. A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. Barlow. 2. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour. 3. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels,
  • BROWNSTONE
    A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.
  • BROWN BILL
    A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak. Note: The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part
  • BROWN RACE
    The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.
  • BROWNING
    A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster. (more info) 1. The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.
  • BROWNISM
    The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton.
  • CHEATER
    1. One who cheats. 2. An escheator. Shak.
  • CHEAT
    1. To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island. Shak. 2. To beguile. Sir W. Scott. To cheat winter of its dreariness. W. Irving. Syn. --
  • ESCHEATOR
    An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
  • TRACHEATE
    Breathing by means of tracheƦ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
  • IMBROWN
    To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.
  • ESCHEATAGE
    The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood.
  • NUT-BROWN
    Brown as a nut long kept and dried. "The spicy nutbrown ale." Milton.
  • ESCHEAT
    escheit, escheoit, escheeite, esheoite, fr. escheoir to fall to, fall to the lot of; pref. es- + cheoir, F. choir, to The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction
  • ESCHEATABLE
    Liable to escheat.

 

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