Word Meanings - LET-ALONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Letting alone. The let-alone principle, doctrine, or policy. See Laissez faire.

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• LAISSEZ FAIRE
  Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez
• LETTRURE
  See CHAUCER
• ALONENESS
  A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. Bp. Montagu.
• 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.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• LETTE
  To let; to hinder. See Let, to hinder. Chaucer.
• LETTISH
  Of or pertaining to the Letts. -- n.
• LETTER
  One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• LETTERPRESS
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
• LETTS
  An Indo-European people, allied to the Lithuanians and Old Prussians, and inhabiting a part of the Baltic provinces of Russia.
• LETTERLESS
  1. Not having a letter. 2. Illiterate. E. Waterhouse.
• ALONE
  1. Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18. 2. Of or by itself; by themselves;
• POLICY
  1. Civil polity. 2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state. 3. The method
• LETTERWOOD
  The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum , found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for
• LETTERING
  1. The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting. 2. The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign.
• LETTUCE
  A composite plant of the genus Lactuca , the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is L. Canadensis. Hare's lettuce, Lamb's
• LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE
• ALONELY
  Only; merely; singly. This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity. Latimer.
• 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.
• IMPOLICY
  The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.
• DILETTANTISM
  See HARRISON
• MISPOLICY
  Wrong policy; impolicy.
• 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.
• ABALONE
  A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.
• 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
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• AIGUILLETTE
  1. A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet. 2. One of the ornamental tags, cords, or loops on some military and naval uniforms.
• GAUNTLETTED
  Wearing a gauntlet.