Word Meanings - RELICT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A woman whose husband is dead; a widow. Eli dying without issue, Jacob was obbliged by law to marry his relict, and so to raise up seed to his brother Eli. South.

Related words: (words related to RELICT)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• MARRY
  1. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place. Tell him that he shall marry the
• SOUTHWEST
  Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• DYNAMO
  A dynamo-electric machine.
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHAGY
  Difficulty in swallowing.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• ISSUE
  1. To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank. 2. To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions. 3. To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.
• DYNAMOMETER
  An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• DYSODILE
  An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• RELICT
  A woman whose husband is dead; a widow. Eli dying without issue, Jacob was obbliged by law to marry his relict, and so to raise up seed to his brother Eli. South.
• HUSBANDABLE
  Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• DYNAMO-ELECTRIC
  Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
• TODDY
  1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation. 2. A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened. Note: Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and
• LARDY
  Containing, or resembling, lard; of the character or consistency of lard.
• DISCANDY
  To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.
• BLADY
  Consisting of blades. "Blady grass." Drayton.
• DEEDY
  Industrious; active. Cowper.
• ROWDY
  One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• TETRADYMITE
  A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Calles also telluric bismuth.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• UNBODY
  To free from the body; to disembody. Her soul unbodied of the burdenous corse. Spenser.
• KIDDYISH
  Frolicsome; sportive.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• EPIDIDYMITIS
  Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.
• DIDYM
  See DIDYMIUM