Word Meanings - CHECKERWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials. 2. Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. De Foe.

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• VARIOLATION
  Inoculation with smallpox.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• VARIX
  A uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein. Note: Varices are owing to local retardation of the venous circulation, and in some cases to relaxation of the parietes of the veins. They are very common in the superficial veins of the lower
• VARIATION
  Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc. (more info) 1. The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation;
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• VARICOSITY
  1. The quality or state of being varicose. 2. An enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like; a varix; as, the varicosities of nerve fibers.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• VARIEGATE
  To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• PROVIDENCE
  A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor. 4. Prudence in
• VARI
  The ringtailed lemur of Madagascar. Its long tail is annulated with black and white.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• SHOWROOM
  A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
• SHOWILY
  In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
• VARIETAS
  A variety; -- used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var.
• VARIORUM
  Containing notes by different persons; -- applied to a publication; as, a variorum edition of a book.
• VARIFORMED
  Formed with different shapes; having various forms; variform.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• SHOWING
  1. Appearance; display; exhibition. 2. Presentation of facts; statement. J. S. Mill.
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• OVARITIS
  Inflammation of the ovaries.
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• INVARIANT
  An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations. J. J. Sylvester.
• PREVARICATOR
  A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution. 3. One who betrays or abuses a trust. Prynne. (more info) 1. One who prevaricates.
• RAREE-SHOW
  A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.
• DIVARICATELY
  With divarication.
• DIVARICATOR
  One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.