Word Meanings - RENTIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like.

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• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• LANDSMAN
  A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• FIXTURE
  Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
• INCOME
  That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. See Food. Opposed to output. Income bond, a bond issued on the income of the corporation or company issuing it,
• FIXING
  Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. (more info) 1. The act or process of making fixed. 2. That which is fixed; a fixture. 3. pl.
• FIX
  Fixed; solidified. Chaucer.
• LANDSCAPE
  land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual
• LANDSTREIGHT
  A narrow strip of land.
• FIXURE
  Fixed position; stable condition; firmness. Shak.
• FIXEDLY
  In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.
• LANDSTURM
  That part of the reserve force in Germany which is called out last.
• INCOMER
  1. One who comes in. Outgoers and incomers. Lew Wallace. 2. One who succeeds another, as a tenant of land, houses, etc.
• FIXATION
  1. The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed. An unalterable fixation of resolution. Killingbeck. To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of
• FIXABLE
  Capable of being fixed.
• FIXIDITY
  Fixedness. Boyle.
• FIXATIVE
  That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.
• FIXITY
  1. Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed. 2. Coherence of parts. Sir I. Newton.
• FIXEDNESS
  1. The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness. 2. The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.
• LANDSTORM
  See VARNPLIGTIGE
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• CONFIXURE
  Act of fastening.
• PREFIX
  prae before + figere to fix: cf. F. préfix fixed beforehand, 1. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement. 2. To set or appoint beforehand; to settle
• SUFFIX
  A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a. (more info) 1. A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
• TRANSFIX
  To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.
• PERFIX
  To fix surely; to appoint.
• CRUCIFIXION
  1. The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment. 2. The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross. 3.