Word Meanings - POCKETBOOK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.

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• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• MONEY
  fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and
• CARRYK
  A carack. Chaucer.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• POCKET
  A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like. A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity. A hole containing water. (more
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• POCKET VETO
  The retention by the President of the United States of a bill unsigned so that it does not become a law, in virtue of the following constitutional provision : "If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted)
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• MONEYED
  1. Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon. 2. Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke. 3. Consisting
• CARRYALL
  A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
• POCKETKNIFE
  A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• NOTEBOOK
  1. A book in which notes or memorandums are written. 2. A book in which notes of hand are registered.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• CARRYTALE
  A talebearer. Shak.
• MONEY-MAKER
  1. One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. 2. One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• SCARRY
  Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
• WATER POCKET
  A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage.
• MISCARRY
  1. To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat. My ships have all miscarried. Shak. The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried. Shak. 2. To bring forth young
• OVERCARRY
  To carry too far; to carry beyond the proper point. Hayward.
• UNDERMONEYED
  Bribed. Fuller.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.