Word Meanings - BLACKGUARDISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The conduct or language of a blackguard; rufflanism.

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• CONDUCTIVITY
  The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces
• CONDUCTRESS
  A woman who leads or directs; a directress.
• CONDUCTOR
  The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden. 2. One in charge of a public conveyance, as
• CONDUCTIBILITY
  1. Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity. 2. Conductivity; capacity for receiving and transmitting.
• CONDUCT
  1. The act or method of conducting; guidance; management. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war. Paley. The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs. Ld. Brougham. 2. Skillful guidance or management; generalship. Conduct
• BLACKGUARDISM
  The conduct or language of a blackguard; rufflanism.
• CONDUCTION
  Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity. communication from one body to another when they are in contact, or through a homogenous body from particle to particle, constitutes conduction. Amer. Cyc. (more info) 1.
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• CONDUCTORY
  Having the property of conducting.
• CONDUCTANCE
  Conducting power; -- the reciprocal of resistance. A suggested unit is the mho, the reciprocal of the ohm. Conductance is an attribute of any specified conductor, and refers to its shape, length, and other factors. Conductivity is an attribute of
• BLACKGUARDLY
  In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.
• LANGUAGELESS
  Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
• BLACKGUARD
  1. The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants
• LANGUAGED
  Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.
• CONDUCTIBLE
  Capable of being conducted.
• CONDUCTIVE
  Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil. The ovarian walls . . . are seen to be distinctly conductive. Goodale
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• NONCONDUCTING
  Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.
• MISCONDUCT
  Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• RADIOCONDUCTOR
  A substance or device that has its conductivity altered in some way by electric waves, as a coherer.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.
• UNDERCONDUCT
  A lower conduit; a subterranean conduit. Sir H. Wotton.
• NONCONDUCTOR
  A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of
• RECONDUCT
  To conduct back or again. "A guide to reconduct thy steps." Dryden.