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Word Meanings - LOOPHOLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy. 2. A hole or aperture that gives a passage, or the means of escape or evasion.

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  • MARGINALIA
    Marginal notes.
  • MARGINALLY
    In the margin of a book.
  • MARGINAL
    1. Of or pertaining to a margin. 2. Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.
  • MARGINATED
    See A
  • LOOPHOLE
    A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy. 2. A hole or aperture that gives a passage, or the means of escape or evasion.
  • MARGINED
    Bordered with a distinct line of color. (more info) 1. Having a margin. Hawthorne.
  • MARGIN
    The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article. 4. Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty. (more info) 1. A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.
  • BRINK
    The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. "The brink of vice." Bp. Porteus. "The brink of ruin." Burke. The plashy brink of weedy
  • MARGINATE
    Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.
  • LOOPHOLED
    Provided with loopholes.
  • MARGINELLA
    A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas.
  • EXTREMITY
    One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man. 3. The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form. "The extremity of bodily pain." Ray. 4. The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering;
  • MARGINICIDAL
    Dehiscent by the separation of united carpels; -- said of fruits.
  • BOUNDARY
    That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit. But still his native country lies Beyond the boundaries of the skies. N. Cotton. That bright and tranquil
  • LATITUDE
    Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian. (more info) 1. Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width. Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above one third part. Sir H.
  • INTRAMARGINAL
    Situated within the margin. Loudon.
  • IMMARGINATE
    Not having a distinctive margin or border. Grey.
  • BIMARGINATE
    Having a double margin, as certain shells.
  • EMARGINATE
    To take away the margin of.
  • EMARGINATELY
    In an emarginate manner.
  • EMARGINATE; EMARGINATED
    Notched at the summit. (more info) 1. Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
  • COLATITUDE
    The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.
  • ADMARGINATE
    To write in the margin. Coleridge.

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