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Word Meanings - SUCKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.

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  • BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
    See WORM
  • BROKERY
    The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
  • 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
  • BRITTLELY
    In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
  • BRAND IRON
    1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
  • BRAZIL NUT
    An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.
  • BRAST
    To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.
  • BREAKMAN
    See BRAKEMAN
  • BROID
    To braid. Chaucer.
  • BROIDERER
    One who embroiders.
  • BRUISEWORT
    A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
  • BOUNDLESS
    Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
  • BRAWNER
    A boor killed for the table.
  • GRAINED
    Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
  • BRACHIOGANOID
    One of the Brachioganoidei.
  • THITHER
    1. Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water. W. D. Howells. 2. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a. Huxley.
  • BRANCHIOSTOMA
    The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
  • BRITANNIC
    Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
  • BROKEN WIND
    The heaves.
  • GROUNDWORK
    That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
  • HOME-BOUND
    Kept at home.
  • 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.
  • COUNTERBRACE
    To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • OPPROBRIOUS
    1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
  • TECTIBRANCHIA
    See TECTIBRANCHIATA
  • OUTBOUND
    Outward bound. Dryden.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • CAMBRIC
    1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures
  • BRASIER; BRAZIER
    An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.
  • MISGROUND
    To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • SUBBRONCHIAL
    Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.
  • TOOTHBRUSH
    A brush for cleaning the teeth.
  • CHICKEN-BREASTED
    Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

 

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