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Word Meanings - LIQUIDATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, liquidates. 2. An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company. Mozley & W.

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  • BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
    See WORM
  • BROKERY
    The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
  • BREVIARY
    summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
  • BRITTLELY
    In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • BRAND IRON
    1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
  • BRAZIL NUT
    An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.
  • WIND-RODE
    Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
  • BRAST
    To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.
  • WINDINGLY
    In a winding manner.
  • BREAKMAN
    See BRAKEMAN
  • BROID
    To braid. Chaucer.
  • WINDTIGHT
    So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
  • BROIDERER
    One who embroiders.
  • BRUISEWORT
    A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
  • BRAWNER
    A boor killed for the table.
  • BRACHIOGANOID
    One of the Brachioganoidei.
  • BRITANNIC
    Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
  • BRANCHIOSTOMA
    The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
  • BROKEN WIND
    The heaves.
  • BREATHE
    Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
  • COUNTERBRACE
    To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • OPPROBRIOUS
    1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • TECTIBRANCHIA
    See TECTIBRANCHIATA
  • CAMBRIC
    1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures
  • BRASIER; BRAZIER
    An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.
  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • TOOTHBRUSH
    A brush for cleaning the teeth.
  • SUBBRONCHIAL
    Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.
  • OVERBROW
    To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.
  • CHICKEN-BREASTED
    Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

 

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