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Word Meanings - AWNING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

awan, awang, anything suspended, or LG. havening a place sheltered 1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. 2. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond

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awan, awang, anything suspended, or LG. havening a place sheltered 1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. 2. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • CONTINUABLE
    Capable of being continued
  • CONTINUANT
    Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound. -- n.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • SHELTERLESS
    Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
  • PLACENTARY
    Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • CONTINUITY
    the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • BEFORETIME
    Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
  • 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.
  • EXTENDANT
    Displaced. Ogilvie.
  • CANVASSER
    One who canvasses.
  • BEYOND
    1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
  • ANYTHINGARIAN
    One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • RECONTINUANCE
    The act or state of recontinuing.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • DISCONTINUITY
    Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
    Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
  • DISCONTINUE
    To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
  • COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
    1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like

 

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