Word Meanings - OBSIDIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to a siege. Obsidional crown , a crown bestowed upon a general who raised the siege of a beleaguered place, or upon one who held out against a siege.
Related words: (words related to OBSIDIONAL)
- CROWN SIDE
See OFFICE - CROWNED
1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing - CROWNER
A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym: - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - OBSIDIONAL
Of or pertaining to a siege. Obsidional crown , a crown bestowed upon a general who raised the siege of a beleaguered place, or upon one who held out against a siege. - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - 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. - CROWNLAND
In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria. - GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - RAISE
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - RAISED
1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised - CROWN OFFICE
The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill. - BELEAGUERER
One who beleaguers. - RAIS
See REIS - CROWN-SAW
A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. Note: The trephine was the first of the class of crownsaws. Knight. - GENERALTY
Generality. Sir M. Hale. - CROWNLESS
Without a crown. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - LIVRAISON
A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part. - BESIEGER
One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged. - HEBRAIST
One versed in the Hebrew language and learning. - MISRAISE
To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - KARAISM
Doctrines of the Karaites.