Word Meanings - PUNCTUATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.

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• 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.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• PROPERLY
  1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
• PROPERNESS
  1. The quality of being proper. 2. Tallness; comeliness. Udall.
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• EXPRESSURE
  The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak.
• PROPERATE
  To hasten, or press forward.
• EXPRESS TRAIN
  Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• EXPRESSIVE
  1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning
• PROPERTIED
  Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.
• EXPRESSNESS
  The state or quality of being express; definiteness. Hammond.
• MEAN
  menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you
• MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
  Winding; flexuous.
• PROPERISPOME
  Properispomenon.
• PROPER
  Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge. In proper, individually; privately. Jer. Taylor. -- Proper flower or corolla , one of the single florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower. --
• SEPARATE
  pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii.
• MEANDER
  Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
• EXPRESSIONAL
  Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin.
• MEANLY
  Moderately. A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• REMEANT
  Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• INTERMEAN
  Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson.
• INEXPRESSIBLY
  In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• UNMEANT
  Not meant or intended; unintentional. Dryden.
• DEMEANANCE
  Demeanor. Skelton.