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Word Meanings - COTQUEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women. Addison. 2. A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy. What, shall a husband be afraid of his wife's face We are a king, cotquean, and we will reign in our pleasures. B. Jonson.

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  • SHALLOP
    A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
  • CUCKOLD
    coucoul, cucuault, the last syllable being modified by the OE. suffix -wold ; cf. F. cocu a cuckold, formerly also, a cuckoo, and L. cuculus a cuckoo. The word alludes to the habit of the female cuckoo, who lays her eggs in the nests of other
  • HUSBANDABLE
    Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
  • HUSBANDLESS
    Destitute of a husband. Shak.
  • 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.
  • SHALLOON
    A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
  • SHALLOW-BRAINED
    Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
  • PROPERLY
    1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
  • SHALLOW-WAISTED
    Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
  • SHALLOW
    schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
  • HUSBANDRY
    1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Shak. 2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. Husbandry supplieth all
  • HUSBANDLY
    Frugal; thrifty. Tusser.
  • 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.
  • BELONG
    attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
  • REIGNER
    One who reigns.
  • SHALLOT
    A small kind of onion growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.
  • CUCKOLD'S KNOT
    A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
  • CUCKOLDOM
    The state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively. Addison.
  • SHALL
    sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen, pres. zal, imp. zoude, zou, OHG. solan, scolan, pres. scal, sol. imp. scolta, solta, G. sollen, pres. soll,
  • WOMEN
    pl. of Woman.
  • PREIGNITION
    Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.
  • IMPROPERLY
    In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
  • FOREIGNER
    A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham.
  • FOREIGNNESS
    The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.
  • REIGN
    regnum, fr. rex, regis, a king, fr. regere to guide, rule. See Regal, 1. Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion. He who like a father held his reign. Pope. Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean,, and
  • YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which

 

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