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Word Meanings - RUBBISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris. What rubbish and what offal! Shak. he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden. Rubbish

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Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris. What rubbish and what offal! Shak. he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden. Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin. (more info) French plural from an assumed dim. of robe, probably in the sense of trash; cf. It. robaccia trash, roba stuff, goods, wares, robe. Thus, etymologically rubbish is the pl. of rubble. See Robe, and cf.

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  • LUMBERMAN
    One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.
  • LUMBERING
    The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
  • CLEARLY
    In a clear manner.
  • CLEARER
    A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
  • DISENCUMBER
    To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
  • YIELDABLE
    Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
  • YIELDANCE
    1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
  • TRASHILY
    In a trashy manner.
  • CLEAR-HEADED
    Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
  • ACQUIESCENTLY
    In an acquiescent manner.
  • TRASHY
    Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
  • YIELDING
    Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
  • ACQUIESCE
    1. To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with
  • CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
    Acute discernment.
  • NONSENSE
    1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
  • LUMBER STATE
    Maine; -- a nickname.
  • CLEAR-SEEING
    Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
  • ECONOMIZER
    1. One who, or that which, economizes. 2. Specifically: An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.
  • YIELDER
    One who yields. Shak.
  • CLEARCOLE
    A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
  • YIELD
    pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
  • IMMIGRANT
    One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
  • ECONOMIZE
    To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett . Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving.
  • POLYNUCLEAR
    Containing many nuclei.
  • SLUMBERY
    Sleepy. Chaucer.
  • FLAGRANT
    1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
  • INTEGRANT
    Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss
  • CLUMBER
    A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.
  • VAGRANTNESS
    State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
  • FRAGRANT
    fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;

 

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