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Word Meanings - CONVEYER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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  • SECRETE
    To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
  • JUGGLERESS
    1. A female juggler. T. Warton.
  • CHEATABLE
    Capable of being cheated.
  • SECRETARY
    secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • SECRET
    segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut.
  • THIEF
    thiaf, OS. theof, thiof, D. dief, G. dieb, OHG. diob, Icel. , Sw. tjuf, Dan. tyv, Goth. , , and perhaps to Lith. tupeti to squat or 1. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft. There came a privy thief, men clepeth
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • SECRETNESS
    1. The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed. 2. Secretiveness; concealment. Donne.
  • CHEATABLENESS
    Capability of being cheated.
  • SECRETORY
    Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n.
  • SECRETARIAT; SECRETARIATE
    The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.
  • GIVEN
    p. p. & a. from Give, v.
  • SECRETITIOUS
    Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors. Floyer.
  • THIEFLY
    Like a thief; thievish; thievishly. Chaucer.
  • SECRETLY
    In a secret manner.
  • SECRETARYSHIP
    The office, or the term of office, of a secretary.
  • SECRETO-MOTORY
    Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.
  • SECRETAGE
    A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs. Ure.
  • JUGGLER
    jongleor, F. jongleur, fr. L. joculator a jester, joker, fr. joculus a little jest or joke, dim. of jocus jest, joke. See Joke, and cf. 1. One who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer. As nimble
  • UNDERSECRETARY
    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
  • ESCHEATOR
    An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
  • TRACHEATE
    Breathing by means of tracheƦ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
  • EXCITO-SECRETORY
    Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
  • FORGIVENESS
    1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
  • ESCHEATAGE
    The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood.
  • HYPERSECRETION
    Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.
  • ESCHEAT
    escheit, escheoit, escheeite, esheoite, fr. escheoir to fall to, fall to the lot of; pref. es- + cheoir, F. choir, to The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction
  • SEA THIEF
    A pirate. Drayton.

 

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