Word Meanings - PILLORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it. Shak. (more info) LL. piloricum, pilloricum, pellericum, pellorium, pilorium,

Additional info about word: PILLORY

A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it. Shak. (more info) LL. piloricum, pilloricum, pellericum, pellorium, pilorium, spilorium; perhaps from a derivative of L. speculari to look around,

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• FRONTIERSMAN
  A man living on the frontier.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• FRONTIERED
  Placed on the frontiers.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• FRONTLESSLY
  Shamelessly; impudently.
• THRUSTING
  The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. (more info) 1. The act of pushing with force. The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. pl.
• FRONTED
  Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.
• FRONTLET
  The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. (more info) 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8. 2. A frown . What makes that
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• FRONTAGE
  The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
• EXPOSTULATOR
  One who expostulates. Lamb.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• EXPOSITION
  1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• EXPOSTULATE
  To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with. Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• FRONTIER
  An outwork. Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak. (more info) 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country;
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• ECHOLESS
  Without echo or response.
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• EFFRONTUOUSLY
  Impudently. R. North.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.