Word Meanings - THANEDOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to THANEDOM)

• THANAGE
  The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.
• THANEDOM
  The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage. Sir W. Scott.
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• THANE
  A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had
• JURISDICTION
  The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes,
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• THANESHIP
  The state or dignity of a thane; thanehood; also, the seignioralty of a thane.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• JURISDICTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to jurisdiction; as jurisdictional rights. Barrow.
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• THANEHOOD
  The character or dignity of a thane; also, thanes, collectively. J. R. Green.
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• NITROMETHANE
  A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol.
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• METHANE
  A light, colorless, gaseous, inflammable hydrocarbon, CH4; marsh gas. See Marsh gas, under Gas. Methane series , a series of saturated hydrocarbons, of which methane is the first member and type, and (because of their general chemical inertness
• ETHANE
  A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol, aldehyde, ether, and acetic acid. Called also dimethyl.
• MALAMETHANE
  A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.
• OXAMETHANE
  Ethyl oxamate, obtained as a white scaly crystalline powder.
• URETHANE
  A white crystalline substance, NH2.CO.OC2H5, produced by the action of ammonia on ethyl carbonate. It is used somewhat in medicine as a hypnotic. By extension, any one of the series of related substances of which urethane proper is the type.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
• HYDROXANTHANE
  A persulphocyanate.