Word Meanings - RESIDENCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Residence. 2. A political agency at a native court in British India, held by an officer styled the Residentl: also, a Dutch commercial colony or province in the East Indies.

Related words: (words related to RESIDENCY)

• COMMERCIALLY
  In a commercial manner.
• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• STYLOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
• STYLOPS
  A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.
• STYLOMMATA
  See STYLOMMATOPHORA
• STYLISTIC
  Of or pertaining to style in language. "Stylistic trifles." J. A. Symonds. The great stylistic differences in the works ascribed to him . G. P. Marsh.
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• COMMERCIAL
  Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. "Princely commercial houses." Macaulay. Commercial college, a school for giving instruction in commercial
• STYLIFEROUS
  Bearing one or more styles.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• STYLOPODIUM
  An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• COLONY
  A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range. (more info) 1. A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• COURTEPY
  A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
• STYLOMMATOPHORA
  A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.
• COURTBRED
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
• NATIVE
  1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• SURSTYLE
  To surname.
• AMPHIPROSTYLE
  Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• INSTYLE
  To style. Crashaw.
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.