Word Meanings - BYSTANDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.

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• SPECTATORSHIP
  1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• TRANSACTOR
  One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business. Derham.
• PALFREY
  palafredus, parafredus, from L. paraveredus a horse for extraordinary 1. A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse. Chaucer. 2. A small saddle horse for ladies. Spenser. Call the host and bid him bring
• CONCERNEDLY
  In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• CONCERNING
  1. That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest. "Our everlasting concernments." I. Watts. To mix with thy concernments I desist. Milton. 2. Importance; moment; consequence. Let every action of concernment to begun with
• TRANSACT
  To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.
• SPECTATOR
  One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. "Devised and played to take spectators." Shak. Syn. -- Looker-on; beholder; observer; witness.
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• SCATTERGOOD
  One who wastes; a spendthrift.
• OBSERVER
  1. One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer. The observed of all observers. Shak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By
• CONCERNED
  Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend.
• ADDRESSEE
  One to whom anything is addressed.
• SCATTERING
  Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
• SCATTER
  Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
• LOOKER
  One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• UNCONCERNMENT
  The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.
• INCONCERNING
  Unimportant; trifling. "Trifling and inconcerning matters." Fuller.
• MISOBSERVER
  One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.
• HEADDRESS
  1. A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire. Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. Addison. 2. A manner of dressing the hair or