Word Meanings - ALDERNEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3.

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• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• BREVIARY
  summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• JERSEY
  1. The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool. 2. A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric . 3. One of a breed of cattle in the Island of
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• BREWER
  One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
• BREAD
  To spread. Ray.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• BREQUET CHAIN
  A watch-guard.
• BRETFUL
  Brimful. Chaucer.
• BRENNAGE
  A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• LIBRETTO
  A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• LIVRAISON
  A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.