Word Meanings - VERSANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Familiar; conversant. Men not versant with courts of justice. Sydney Smith.

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• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• SMITHSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.
• VERSANT
  Familiar; conversant. Men not versant with courts of justice. Sydney Smith.
• JUSTICESHIP
  The office or dignity of a justice. Holland.
• SMITHSONITE
  Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.
• SMITHER
  Fragments; atoms; finders. Smash the bottle to smithers. Tennyson. (more info) 1. Light, fine rain. 2. pl.
• SMITH
  Icel. smi, Dan. & Sw. smed, Goth. smi ; cf. Gr. 1. One who forgess with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. Piers Plowman. Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword. Tate. 2. One who
• FAMILIARITY
  1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. 2. Anything said or done by one person to another
• SMITHCRAFT
  The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. Sir W. Raleigh.
• FAMILIARIZATION
  The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.
• JUSTICEHOOD
  Justiceship. B. Jonson.
• JUSTICEMENT
  Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice. Johnson.
• CONVERSANT
  1. Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted. I have been conversant with the first persons of the age. Dryden. 2. Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with
• CONVERSANTLY
  In a familiar manner.
• SMITHERY
  1. The workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy. 2. Work done by a smith; smithing. The din of all his smithery may some time or other possibly wake this noble duke. Burke.
• FAMILIARIZE
  1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress. 2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self
• SMITHEREENS
  Fragments; atoms; smithers. W. Black.
• FAMILIAR
  1. Of or pertaining to a family; domestic. "Familiar feuds." Byron. 2. Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures. 3. Characterized by, or exhibiting, the
• JUSTICER
  One who administers justice; a judge. "Some upright justicer." Shak.
• JUSTICEABLE
  Liable to trial in a court of justice. Hayward.
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• OBVERSANT
  Conversant; familiar. Bacon.
• INCONVERSANT
  Not conversant; not acquainted; not versed; unfamiliar.
• CHIEF JUSTICE
  The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief
• WHITESMITH
  1. One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith. 2. A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction from one who forges it.
• LOCKSMITH
  An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.
• SILVERSMITH
  One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.
• CHIEF-JUSTICESHIP
  The office of chief justice. Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes. The Century.
• UNJUSTICE
  Want of justice; injustice. Hales.