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Word Meanings - CAUTIONARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals. 2. Given as a pledge or as security. He hated Barnevelt, for his getting the cautionary towns out of his hands. Bp. Burnet. 3. Wary; cautious. Bacon.

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  • CAUTIONARY BLOCK
    A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
  • BACON
    The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
  • HATCHURE
    See HACHURE
  • BACONIAN
    Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
  • HANDSPRING
    A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
  • HATABLE
    Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable.
  • GETTABLE
    That may be obtained.
  • PLEDGERY
    A pledging; suretyship.
  • HATER
    One who hates. An enemy to God, and a hater of all good. Sir T. Browne.
  • HATCHETTINE; HATCHETTITE
    Mineral t
  • PLEDGE
    The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
  • HANDSOMELY
    Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
  • HATTERIA
    A New Zealand lizard, which, in anatomical character, differs widely from all other existing lizards. It is the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephala, of which many Mesozoic fossil species are known; -- called also Sphenodon, and
  • HATCHET MAN
    1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.
  • HATH
    Has.
  • HATEFUL
    1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden. 2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak. Syn.
  • CONVEYER
    1. One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers. 2. One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. Shak.
  • CAUTION
    scavere) to be on one's guard, to take care to be on the 1. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness. 2. Security; guaranty; bail.
  • HATCHEL
    An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle. (more info) Dan. hegle, Sw. häkla, and prob. to E. hook. See Hook, and cf.
  • SECURITY
    1. The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Specifically: Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please.
  • THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG
    See ABOVE
  • SULPHATIC
    Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, a sulphate or sulphates.
  • SULPHATE
    A salt of sulphuric acid.
  • PHILOSOPHATE
    To play the philosopher; to moralize. Barrow.
  • INTERPLEDGE
    To pledge mutually.
  • METAPHOSPHATE
    A salt of metaphosphoric acid.
  • RECONVEY
    1. To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods. 2. To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.
  • CHITCHAT
    Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.
  • ESCHATOLOGY
    The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
  • PRECAUTION
    praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries
  • CHATELAINE
    An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain.
  • CHATOYANT
    Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.
  • SAFE-PLEDGE
    A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.

 

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