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Word Meanings - INTROMISSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority. (more info) 1. The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion. South. 2. The act of letting go in; admission.

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  • SOUTHWEST
    Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
  • SOUTHSAY
    See SOOTHSAY
  • SOUTHWESTERLY
    To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
  • SOUTHPAW
    A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
  • SENDAL
    A light thin stuff of silk. Chaucer. Wore she not a veil of twisted sendal embroidered with silver Sir W. Scott. (more info) LL. cendallum, Gr.
  • INTERMEDDLE
    To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • SOUTHERNLINESS
    Southerliness.
  • SOUTHREN
    Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
  • LETTRURE
    See CHAUCER
  • LEGALITY
    1. The state or quality of being letter of the law.
  • PUTTYROOT
    An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called
  • PUTTER-ON
    An instigator. Shak.
  • LETTIC
    Of or pertaining to the Letts; Lettish. Of or pertaining to a branch of the Slavic family, subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian. -- n. The language of the Letts; Lettish. The language of the Lettic race, including Lettish,
  • LETTERER
    One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
  • SOUTHSAYER
    See SOOTHSAYER
  • SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
    the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
  • WITHOUT-DOOR
    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • PUTT
    A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole.
  • WITHOUTFORTH
    Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
  • BLACK LETTER
    The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
  • DILETTANTE
    An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only. The true poet is not an eccentric creature, not a mere artist living only for art, not
  • BRIOLETTE
    An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets.
  • BELLE-LETTRIST
    One versed in belleslettres.
  • DILETTANTISM
    See HARRISON
  • BARTLETT
    A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
  • ILLEGAL
    Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.
  • ROULETTE
    the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid. (more info) 1. A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a

 

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