Word Meanings - TUFTHUNTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities.
Related words: (words related to TUFTHUNTING)
- HANGNAIL
A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway. - AFTERCAST
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower. - AFTER
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts - ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - SEEK
Sick. Chaucer. - QUALITY
1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest - PRACTICER
1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson. - HANGER
1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman. 2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. - AFTERSHAFT
The hypoptilum. - AFTERPIECE
The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. - HANGDOG
A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird. - AFTER DAMP
An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid. - AFTER-NOTE
One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note. - PRACTICED
1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice. - HANG
Hanging. The use of hanged is preferable to that of hung, when reference is had to death or execution by suspension, and it is also i., fr. h, v. t. ; akin to OS. hang, v. i. D. hangen, v. t. & i., G. hangen, v. i, hängen, v. t, Isel hanga, v. - HANGMAN
One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office. Shak. - AFTERWISE
Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late. - AFTERINGS
The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose. - PRACTICE
A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action; - ON-HANGER
A hanger-on. - UPSEEK
To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey. - REEXCHANGE
To exchange anew; to reverse . - INEQUALITY
An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; - CHANGEFUL
Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n. - EXCHANGE EDITOR
An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication. - RESEEK
To seek again. J. Barlow. - COUNTERCHANGED
Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info) - UNHANG
1. To divest or strip of hangings; to remove the hangings, as a room. 2. To remove from that which supports it; as, to unhang a gate. - COUNTERCHANGE
1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson. - WHANGHEE
See WANGHEE - CRAFTER
a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.