Word Meanings - COMMONAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke.

Related words: (words related to COMMONAGE)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• PASTURER
  One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.
• USHERDOM
  The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
• USTULATE
  Blackened as if burned.
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• USURY
  1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii.
• USURPANT
  Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
• COMMONISH
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• PASTURELESS
  Destitute of pasture. Milton.
• PASTURAGE
  1. Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture. 2. Grass growing for feed; grazing. 3. The business of feeding or grazing cattle.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• USQUEBAUGH
  of life; uisge water + beatha life; akin to Gr. bi`os life. See 1. A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott. 2. A liquor
• USURIOUS
  1. Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person. 2. Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract. -- U*su"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- U*su"ri*ous*ness, n.
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• USURER
  1. One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender. If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. Ex. xxii. 25. 2. One who lends money at
• USUFRUCTUARY
  A person who has the use of property and reaps the profits of it. Wharton.
• RIGHTEOUS
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
• USURPATURE
  Usurpation. "Beneath man's usurpature." R. Browning.
• MENISCUS
  A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent.
• ANGUINEOUS
  Snakelike.
• PROTOGYNOUS
  See PROTEROGYNOUS
• RIPARIOUS
  Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• TROUSSEAU
  The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
• PALACIOUS
  Palatial. Graunt.
• PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
  Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
• BUSH
  The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• POLYPHYLLOUS
  Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• DESMOGNATHOUS
  Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
• HORRISONOUS
  Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
• CARNIVOROUS
  Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• RUSHED
  Abounding or covered with rushes.
• BICUSPID
  One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.
• ANTIBILLOUS
  Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.