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Word Meanings - PECK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat. "A peck of provender." Shak. 2. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. "A peck of uncertainties and doubts." Milton.

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  • DEMURE
    good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
  • OBJECTIVENESS
    Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
  • OBJECTIST
    One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
  • OBJECT
    before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
  • OBJECTIVATE
    To objectify.
  • DEMURRABLE
    That may be demurred to. Stormonth.
  • CAVIL; CAVILER; CAVILLER
    One who cavils. Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. Boyle.
  • OBJECTLESS
    Having no object; purposeless.
  • DEMURENESS
    The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.
  • DEMUR
    To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2. (more info) fr. L. demorari; de- + morari to delay, tarry, stay, mora delay; prob. originally, time for thinking, reflection, and akin to memor 1. To linger; to stay; to tarry. Yet durst not demur nor abide
  • NIBBLE
    To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits. Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep. Shak. (more info) Etym:
  • OBJECTIVITY
    The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective. The calm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested objectivity have disappeared . M. Arnold.
  • DEMURELY
    In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.
  • CAVILOUS; CAVILLOUS
    Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing. -- Cav"il*ous*ly, adv. -- Cav"il*ous*ness, n.
  • CAVILLATION
    Frivolous or sophistical objection. Hooker.
  • DEMURRAGE
    The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing. The allowance made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention. The claim for demurrage ceases as soon
  • CAVIL
    To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract. Shak.
  • OBJECTIZE
    To make an object of; to regard as an object; to place in the position of an object. In the latter, as objectized by the former, arise the emotions and affections. Coleridge.
  • CAVILING
    Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious. His depreciatory and caviling criticism. Lewis.
  • OBJECTION
    1. The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection. Johnson. 2. That which is, or may be, presented in opposition; an adverse reason or argument; a reason for objecting; obstacle; impediment; as, I have no objection

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