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Word Meanings - WEARER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc. Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, And fluttered into rags. Milton. 2. That which wastes or diminishes.

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  • APPENDANT
    A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance. (more info) 1. Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.
  • CROWN SIDE
    See OFFICE
  • CROWNED
    1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
  • CROWNER
    A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
  • CROWNLAND
    In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
  • 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.
  • SWORDLESS
    Destitute of a sword.
  • SWORDSMANSHIP
    The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
  • SWORD-SHAPED
    Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
  • CROWN-SAW
    A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. Note: The trephine was the first of the class of crownsaws. Knight.
  • SWORDING
    Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • CROWNLESS
    Without a crown.
  • SHACKLE
    1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine
  • SWORDED
    Girded with a sword. Milton.
  • SWORDSMAN
    1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
  • CROWN COLONY
    A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.
  • TOSSILY
    In a tossy manner.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • SWORDFISH
    A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1. Swordfish sucker , a remora which attaches itself to the swordfish. (more info) A very large oceanic fish , the only representative of the family Xiphiidæ. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones
  • TOSS
    1. To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball. 2. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head. He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me,
  • BROADSWORD
    A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.
  • FORSWEARER
    One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
  • RETOSS
    To toss back or again.
  • UNCROWN
    To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone. He hath done me wrong, And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long. Shak.
  • DISCROWN
    To deprive of a crown. The end had crowned the work; it not unreasonably discrowned the workman. Motley.
  • SWEARER
    1. One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration. 2. A profane person; one who uses profane language. Then the liars and swearers are fools. Shak.
  • RINGTOSS
    A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.
  • TRIPLE-CROWNED
    Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.
  • FLUTTER
    1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.

 

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