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Word Meanings - UNSWEAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To recant or recall, as an oath; to recall after having sworn; to abjure. J. Fletcher.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • AFTERCAST
    A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • 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
  • AFTERPAINS
    The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • SWORN
    p. p. of Swear. Sworn brothers, originally, companions in arms who took an oath to share together good and bad fortune; hence, faithful friends. -- Sworn enemies, determined or irreconcilable enemies. -- Sworn friends, close friends.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • 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.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • 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.
  • ABJUREMENT
    Renunciation.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • AFTERWISE
    Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
  • AFTERINGS
    The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose.
  • ABJURER
    One who abjures.
  • FORSWORNNESS
    State of being forsworn.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • CRAFTER
    a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
  • 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,
  • DRAWSHAVE
    See KNIFE

 

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