Word Meanings - LABOR-SAVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.

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• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• LABORIOUS
  1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
• LABORED
  Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• LABOROUS
  Laborious. Wyatt. -- La"bor*ous*ly, adv. Sir T. Elyot.
• LABOR
  The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. 7. Etym: (more info) 1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard,
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• SAVACIOUN
  Salvation.
• SAVINGLY
  1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• LABORATORY
  The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the
• SAVELOY
  A kind of dried sausage. McElrath.
• SAVE-ALL
  Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. Specifically: A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned. A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass
• SAVOY
  A variety of the common cabbage , having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.
• ADAPTNESS
  Adaptedness.
• SUPERSEDE
  To omit; to forbear. (more info) superior to, forbear, omit; super above + sedere to sit: cf. F. 1. To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace. 2. To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of; as, to supersede an officer. 3. To
• SAVAGISM
  The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.
• OVERLABOR
  1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden. 2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• MISAVIZE
  To misadvise.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• ELABORATION
  The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
• CESSAVIT
  A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
• UNLABORED
  1. Not produced by labor or toil. "Unlabored harvests." Dryden. 2. Not cultivated; untitled; as, an unlabored field. 3. Not laboriously produced, or not evincing labor; as, an unlabored style or work. Tickell.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• SEMISAVAGE
  Half savage.