Word Meanings - OBSERVATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire. Farrow. (more info) 1. A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies. The new observatory in Greenwich Park. Evelyn. 2. A building
Additional info about word: OBSERVATORY
A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire. Farrow. (more info) 1. A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies. The new observatory in Greenwich Park. Evelyn. 2. A building fitted with instruments for making systematic observations of any particular class or series of natural phenomena. 3. A place, as an elevated chamber, from which a view may be observed or commanded.
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- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - FLANK
1. To border; to touch. Bp. Butler. 2. To be posted on the side. - RANGEMENT
Arrangement. Waterland. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - FLANKER
Etym: 1. To defend by lateral fortifications. Sir T. Herbert. 2. To attack sideways. Evelyn. - EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
Effective. B. Jonson. - EFFECT
1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed - LOOKOUT
1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event. 2. The place from which such observation is made. 3. A person engaged in watching. 4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility. - MAKED
Made. Chaucer. - PLACENTA
The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi - HEAVENLY
1. In a manner resembling that of heaven. "She was heavenly true." Shak. 2. By the influence or agency of heaven. Out heavenly guided soul shall climb. Milton. - MAKE-UP
The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward. - MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. - EFFECTOR
An effecter. Derham. - PLACEMAN
One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott. - EFFECTUATE
To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - ESTRANGE
extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and - BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
See BURNER - ORANGEADE
A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet. - DERANGER
One who deranges. - CITRANGE
A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties. - DERANGEMENT
The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - GRANGER
1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange. - DERANGED
Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb. - ESTRANGER
One who estranges.