Word Meanings - RELATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed. (more info) 1. One who relates; a relater. "The several relators of this history." Fuller.

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• FILOSELLE
  A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• FILAMENTOUS
  Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
• FILIPENDULOUS
  Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• FILLIPEEN
  See PHILOPENA
• FILIALLY
  In a filial manner.
• FILLIBEG
  A kilt. See Filibeg.
• PRIVATEERING
  Cruising in a privateer.
• FILICAL
  Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.
• ATTORNEYISM
  The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys.
• FILLETING
  The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
• FILMINESS
  State of being filmy.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• KAFILAH
  See CAFILA
• PROFILE
  A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face. A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like. A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• CAFFILA
  See CAFILA
• PROFILING
  In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.
• INFILTRATE
  To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something. The water infiltrates through the porous rock. Addison.
• CAFILA; CAFILEH
  A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.