Word Meanings - BURGLAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One guilty of the crime of burglary. Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without. (more info) German origin) + OF. lere thief, fr. L. latro. See Borough, and

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• GERMAN
  1. A native or one of the people of Germany. 2. The German language. A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures. A social party at which the german is danced. High German, the Teutonic dialect of Upper
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• BURGLARIOUSLY
  With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.
• GERMANIC
  1. Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy. 2. Teutonic.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• BOROUGH
  An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other. The pledge or surety thus given. Blackstone. Tomlins.
• GERMANIZATION
  The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
• BURGLAR
  One guilty of the crime of burglary. Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without. (more info) German origin) + OF. lere thief, fr. L. latro. See Borough, and
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• BURGLARY
  Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill. Note: By statute law in some of the United States, burglary
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• DEVICEFUL
  Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• ORIGINANT
  Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• ALARMABLE
  Easily alarmed or disturbed.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• ALMSGIVING
  The giving of alms.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• REGIVE
  To give again; to give back.
• DORMER; DORMER WINDOW
  A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.