Word Meanings - ABUTTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.
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- OWNER
One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak. - ESTATE
1. To establish. Beau. & Fl. 2. Tom settle as a fortune. Shak. 3. To endow with an estate. Then would I . . . Estate them with large land and territory. Tennyson. - SPECIFICALLY
In a specific manner. - RIVER
One who rives or splits. - 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. - CONTIGUOUS
In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining. The two halves of the paper did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. - RIVERLING
A rivulet. Sylvester. - OWNERLESS
Without an owner. - STREETWARD
An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets. Cowell. - RIVERY
Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton. - RIVERET
A rivulet. Drayton. - 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. - RIVERSIDE
The side or bank of a river. - OWNERSHIP
The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship. - RIVERED
Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country. - RIVERHOOD
The quality or state of being a river. "Useful riverhood." H. Miller. - STREETWALKER
A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers. - STREET
Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses. He removed Amasa from the street unto the field. Coverdale. At home or through the high street passing. - CROWNER
A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym: - REESTATE
To reëstablish. Walis. - DEHONESTATE
To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see - INTESTATE
1. Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak. 2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate. - WALL STREET
A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center - RENOWNER
One who gives renown. - INCONTIGUOUS
Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate. Boyle. -- In`con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv. - DRIVER
A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive. - SCREW-DRIVER
A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw. - LANDOWNER
An owner of land.