Word Meanings - MINDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom. 2. One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. Dickens.
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- CHILDSHIP
The state or relation of being a child. - SPECIFICNESS
The quality or state of being specific. - CHILDISHNESS
The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - MACHINER
One who or operates a machine; a machinist. - CHILDED
Furnished with a child. - CHILDBIRTH
The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor. - SPECIFICALLY
In a specific manner. - PRIVATEERING
Cruising in a privateer. - CHILDISH
1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who - CHILD STUDY
A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - ATTENDMENT
An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne. - SPECIFY
To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and - PRIVATEERSMAN
An officer or seaman of a privateer. - CHILDCROWING
The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup. - PERSONAL
Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, - GRAMME MACHINE
A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight. - GODCHILD
One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather. - BURRING MACHINE
A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. - REMINDER
One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance. - DISPAUPERIZE
To free a state of pauperism, or from paupers. J. S. Mill. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - GLIDING MACHINE
A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground. - CONSPECIFIC
Of the same species.