Word Meanings - STICKIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stuck; spoiled in making. Stickit minister, a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• CLERICALISM
  An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• CANDIDATESHIP
  Candidacy.
• MINISTERY
  See MILTON
• CLERICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy. "A clerical education." Burke. 2. Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing. "Clerical work." E. Everett. A clerical error, an error made in copying or writing.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• SPOIL
  1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
• STUCK
  imp. & p. p. of Stick.
• SPOILER
  1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
• MAKE
  A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
• MAKED
  Made. Chaucer.
• SPOILSMAN
  One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public
• SPOILABLE
  Capable of being spoiled.
• MAKE-UP
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
• STUCKLE
  A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• MINISTERIALLY
  In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister.
• IMMORALITY
  1. The state or quality of being immoral; vice. The root of all immorality. Sir W. Temple. 2. An immoral act or practice. Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. Milton.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• BESTUCK
  imp. & p. p. Bestick.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• HAYMAKING
  The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
• VLISSMAKI
  The diadem indris. See Indris.