Word Meanings - MANDUCATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.

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• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• CHEWINK
  An american bird of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CHEW
  1. To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate. 2. To ruminate mentally; to meditate on. He chews revenge, abjuring his offense. Prior. To chew the cud, to chew the food ocer again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. Every beast the
• EMPLOYMENT
  1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments;
• EMPLOYEE
  One employed by another.
• EMPLOYE
  One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.
• CHEWER
  One who chews.
• EMPLOYABLE
  Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.
• EMPLOY
  implicate, engage; in + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Imply, 1. To inclose; to infold. Chaucer. 2. To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as:
• CHEWET
  A kind of meat pie.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• ESCHEW
  1. To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of. They must not only eschew evil, but do good. Bp. Beveridge. 2. To escape from; to avoid. He who obeys, destruction shall eschew. Sandys.
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• ESCHEWER
  One who eschews.
• PREEMPLOY
  To employ beforehand. "Preëmployed by him." Shak.
• DISEMPLOYMENT
  The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
• ESCHEWMENT
  The act of eschewing.
• FITCHET; FITCHEW
  The European polecat . See Polecat.
• MISEMPLOYMENT
  Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson.
• DISEMPLOY
  To throw out of employment. Jer. Taylor.