Word Meanings - SEMPSTRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A seamstress. Two hundred sepstress were employed to make me shirts. Swift.
Related words: (words related to SEMPSTRESS)
- SWIFTNESS
The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc. - SWIFTLET
Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible. - SWIFTER
A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast. - EMPLOYER
One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen. - SEAMSTRESS
A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman. - HUNDREDER
A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs. 3. One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred. Blount. Cowell. (more info) 1. An inhabitant or freeholder of - SWIFTLY
In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Wyclif. - SEAMSTRESSY
The business of a seamstress. - SWIFTFOOT
Nimble; fleet. Mir. for Mag. - SWIFT
to swapan to sweep, swipu a whip; cf. swifan to move quickly, to 1. Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt. My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, - EMPLOYMENT
1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; - EMPLOYEE
One employed by another. - EMPLOYE
One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer. - HUNDRED
hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-ra to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundra, Dan. hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade, Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant, - EMPLOYABLE
Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle. - HUNDREDTH
1. Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units. 2. Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth. - HUNDREDWEIGHT
A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds - EMPLOY
implicate, engage; in + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Imply, 1. To inclose; to infold. Chaucer. 2. To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: - HUNDREDFOLD
A hundred times as much or as many. He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time. Mark x. 30. - UNEMPLOYMENT
Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent. - UNEMPLOYED
1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital. - PREEMPLOY
To employ beforehand. "Preƫmployed by him." Shak. - DISEMPLOYMENT
The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor. - THUNDROUS
Thunderous; sonorous. "Scraps of thunderous epic." Tennyson. - MISEMPLOYMENT
Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson. - DISEMPLOY
To throw out of employment. Jer. Taylor. - CHILTERN HUNDREDS
A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.