Word Meanings - TAXER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who taxes. 2. One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread,

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• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• 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
• BREADTHWISE
  In the direction of the breadth.
• BREADTHLESS
  Without breadth.
• CHOSEN
  One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.
• BREADROOT
  The root of a leguminous plant , found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food. Note: It is the Pomme blanche of Canadian voyageurs.
• BREADSTUFF
  Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
• REGULATE
  1. To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws. The laws which regulate the successions of the seasons. Macaulay. The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their
• ASSIZER
  An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc.
• BREADCORN
  Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc.
• BREAD
  To spread. Ray.
• BREADTHWAYS
  Breadthwise. Whewell.
• BREADED
  Braided Spenser.
• ASSIZE
  assembly of judges, the decree pronounced by them, tax, impost, fr. assis, assise, p. p. of asseoir, fr. L. assid to sit by; ad + sed to 1. An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a
• BREADLESS
  Without bread; destitude of food. Plump peers and breadless bards alike are dull. P. Whitehead.
• BREADTH
  1. Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. 2. The quality of having the colors and shadows broad and massive, and the arrangement of objects such as to avoid to great
• YEARLY
  1. Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast. 2. Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant. 3. Accomplished in a year; as, the yearly circuit, or revolution, of the earth. Shak.
• BREADWINNER
  The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer.
• HALF-YEARLY
  Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
• SWINEBREAD
  The truffle.
• SHEWBREAD
  See SHOWBREAD
• SELF-REGULATED
  Regulated by one's self or by itself.
• WAYBREAD
  The common dooryard plantain .
• GINGERBREAD
  A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer. Gingerbread tree , the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. --
• SUBREADER
  An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon. Crabb.
• BEEBREAD
  A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.
• SHOWBREAD
  Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in