Word Meanings - BORDERER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region. Borderers of the Caspian. Dyer.

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• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• EXTREMELESS
  Having no extremes; infinite.
• TRACTARIANISM
  The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• COUNTRY CLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• TRACTION
  1. The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle. 2. Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug. 3. Attraction;
• TRACTORY
  A tractrix.
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• TRACTILE
  Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.
• COUNTRYSIDE
  A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
• TRACTATOR
  One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian. C. Kingsley.
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• PLACENTIOUS
  Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• DISTRACTED
  Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.