Word Meanings - PROVISOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who procures or receives a papal provision. See Provision, (more info) 1. One who provides; a purveyor. "The chief provisor of our horse." Ford. The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house. Cowell. One who is regularly inducted

Additional info about word: PROVISOR

One who procures or receives a papal provision. See Provision, (more info) 1. One who provides; a purveyor. "The chief provisor of our horse." Ford. The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house. Cowell. One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See Provision, 5. P. Plowman.

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• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• HORSEMAN
  A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1.
• HORSEKNOP
  Knapweed.
• HORSERAKE
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• TREASURERSHIP
  The office of treasurer.
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• HOUSEWIFE
  A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good
• PROVISORILY
  In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; as, to admit a doctrine provisorily. Sir W. Hamilton.
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• HOUSEWARMING
  A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.
• PAPALITY
  The papacy. Ld. Berners. Milton.
• CHIEFEST
  First or foremost; chief; principal. "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.
• INDUCTORIUM
  An induction coil.
• PROVISIONARY
  Provisional. Burke.
• PROVISIONAL
  Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
• STEWARDSHIP
  The office of a steward. Shak.
• INDUCTANCE
  Capacity for induction; the coefficient of self-induction. The unit of inductance is the henry.
• HOUSEBOTE
  Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• WAREHOUSE
  A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.
• POSTHOUSE
  1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office.
• HENHOUSE
  A house or shelter for fowls.
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• TRUGGING-HOUSE
  A brothel. Robert Greene.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• FULL HOUSE
  A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind.
• KERCHIEF
  couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
• WATCHHOUSE
  1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
• TIRING-HOUSE
  A tiring-room. Shak.
• REAR-HORSE
  A mantis.
• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
• HOTHOUSE
  A heated room for drying green ware. (more info) 1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened. 2. A bagnio, or bathing house. Shak.
• BEADHOUSE; BEDEHOUSE
  An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.