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Word Meanings - APPRAISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning.

Additional info about word: APPRAISE

1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning. Appraised the Lycian custom. Tennyson. Note: In the United States, this word is often pronounced, and sometimes written, apprize.

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  • COUNTERBRACE
    To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • GAUGE
    To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock. The vanes nicely gauged on each side. Derham. 4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment. 5. To measure
  • COUNTERFLEURY
    Counterflory.
  • COUNTERVIEW
    1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
  • COUNTABLE
    Capable of being numbered.
  • COUNTER WEIGHT
    A counterpoise.
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • COUNTERJUMPER
    A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
  • WASTEL
    A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
  • RECKON
    reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
  • NUMBERFUL
    Numerous.
  • RECKONER
    One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
  • COUNTERPLEAD
    To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
  • COUNTER BRACE
    The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
  • WASTETHRIFT
    A spendthrift.
  • COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
    See A
  • ALKALI WASTE
    Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
  • BESCATTER
    1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
  • OVERWASTED
    Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
  • ENCOUNTERER
    One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
  • ACCOUNTANTSHIP
    The office or employment of an accountant.
  • ARCHTREASURER
    A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.

 

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