Word Meanings - USHERDOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.

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• USHERDOM
  The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• POSITION
  A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error. Angle of position , the angle which any line makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. -- Double position ,
• POSITIONAL
  Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. Sir T. Browne.
• OFFICE
  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
• USHERLESS
  Destitute of an usher. Marston.
• USHER
  hussier, huissier, fr. L. ostiarius a doorkeeper, fr. ostium a door, 1. An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before
• USHERANCE
  The act of ushering, or the state of being ushered in. Shaftesbury.
• USHERSHIP
  The office of an usher; usherdom.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• THRUSHER
  The song thrush.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• EXPOSITION
  1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
• AMBUSHER
  One lying in ambush.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• SEPOSITION
  The act of setting aside, or of giving up. Jer. Taylor.
• CIRCUMPOSITION
  The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.
• ANTEPOSITION
  The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
• DEPOSITION
  The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit.
• MISEXPOSITION
  Wrong exposition.
• INTERPOSITION
  insertion, fr. interponere, interpositum: cf. F. interposition. See 1. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. 2. The thing interposed.