Word Meanings - SUBBREED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed.

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• BREVIARY
  summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
• PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
  1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses.
• PARENTHESIS
  One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• PARENTATION
  Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. Abp. Potter.
• DIFFERENTIALLY
  In the way of differentiation.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• INCIPIENT
  Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day. -- In*cip"i*ent*ly, adv.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• BREWER
  One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
• PARENT
  1. One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother. Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Eph. vi. 1. 2. That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice. Regular industry is the parent
• DIFFERENTLY
  In a different manner; variously.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• BREQUET CHAIN
  A watch-guard.
• BRETFUL
  Brimful. Chaucer.
• BRENNAGE
  A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• LIBRETTO
  A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves.
• INDIFFERENCY
  Absence of interest in, or influence from, anything; unconcernedness; equilibrium; indifferentism; indifference. Gladstone. To give ourselves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause. Fuller. Moral liberty . . . does not, after all,
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• SABRE
  See SABER
• TIMBREL
  A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity. Miriam . . . took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex. xv. 20. (more info) typmanum, Gr. tabl a drum; cf. Per. tambal
• SPANKING BREEZE
  a strong breeze.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.