Word Meanings - WIRE-PULLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.
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- SECRETE
To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See - SECRETARY
secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public - SECRET
segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut. - INTRIGUER
One who intrigues. - PULLICATE
A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief. - PUPPET
The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe. Puppet master. Same as Puppetman. -- Puppet play, a puppet show. -- Puppet player, one who manages the motions of puppets. -- Puppet show, a mock drama performed by puppets moved by - SECRETNESS
1. The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed. 2. Secretiveness; concealment. Donne. - INTRIGUE
1. To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice. 2. To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour. - INTRIGUERY
Arts or practice of intrigue. - SECRETORY
Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n. - INFLUENCE
Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of - PULLULATION
A germinating, or budding. Dr. H. More. - HENCE
ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send - PULLEY
A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain. Note: The pulley, as one - PUPPETRY
Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation. Puppetry of the English laws of divorce. Chambers. - SECRETARIAT; SECRETARIATE
The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc. - PULLMAN CAR
A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman. - ESPECIALLY
In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree. - PUPPETISH
Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; of the nature of a puppet. - SECRETITIOUS
Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors. Floyer. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - CONE PULLEY
A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - THENCEFROM
From that place. - REPULLULATE
To bud again. Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field. Howell. - WIRE-PULLER
One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer. Political wire-pullers and convention packers. Lowell. - PRESSURE WIRES
Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points. - THENCE
see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark - MISMANAGEMENT
Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement. - ARCHENCEPHALA
The division that includes man alone. R. Owen. - THENCEFORTH
From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.