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Word Meanings - BREAKNECK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A fall that breaks the neck. 2. A steep place endangering the neck.

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  • 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.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • STEEP
    Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
  • STEEPLE
    A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
  • STEEPLY
    In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
  • STEEP-DOWN
    Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.
  • 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
  • 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
  • PLACEMAN
    One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
  • STEEPLE-CROWNED
    1. Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building. 2. Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne.
  • ENDANGERMENT
    Hazard; peril. Milton.
  • STEEPEN
    To become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller.
  • PLACENTIOUS
    Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
  • STEEPER
    A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.
  • PLACEBO
    The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
  • PLACENTIFEROUS
    Having or producing a placenta.
  • STEEPNESS
    1. Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof. 2. Height; loftiness. Chapman.
  • PLACENTATION
    The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • 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
  • APLACENTAL
    Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
  • DISPLACER
    The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces.
  • BY-PLACE
    A retired or private place.
  • SELF-COMPLACENCY
    The quality of being self-complacent. J. Foster.
  • MISPLACE
    To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
  • EMPLACEMENT
    A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.
  • DISPLACEABLE
    Capable of being displaced.

 

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