Word Meanings - THENCEFORTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.

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• SALTATORY
  Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing. Saltatory evolution , a theory of evolution which holds that the transmutation of species is not always gradual, but that there may come sudden and marked variations. See
• SALTFOOT
  A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• SALTPETROUS
  Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter.
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• SALTIGRADE
  Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• SALTATORIA
  A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.
• SALTARELLO
  A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• CUSTOM
  Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without
• SALTISH
  Somewhat salt. -- Salt"ish*ly, adv. -- Salt"ish*ness, n.
• SALTATORIAL
  1. Relating to leaping; saltatory; as, saltatorial exercises. Same as Saltatorious. Of or pertaining to the Saltatoria.
• SALTPETER; SALTPETRE
  Potassium nitrate; niter, a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• SALTERN
  A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
• THEREAFTER
  1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• MONOTHALMIC
  Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• OXYSALT
  A salt of an oxyacid, as a sulphate.
• KNOW-NOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The