Word Meanings - COUPLEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Union; combination; a coupling; a pair. Shak. And forth together rode, a goodly couplement. Spenser.

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• FORTHPUTING
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• COUPLE
  See COUPLE-CLOSE (more info) 1. That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• FORTHCOMING
  Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
• FORTHY
  Therefore. Spenser.
• GOODLYHEAD; GOODLYHOOD
  Goodness; grace; goodliness. Spenser.
• FORTHWARD
  Forward. Bp. Fisher.
• COUPLER
  One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars. Coupler of an organ, a contrivance by which any two or more of the ranks of keys, or keys and pedals, are connected so as to act together when the organ is played.
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• FORTHRIGHTNESS
  Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.
• COUPLET
  Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other. A sudden couplet rushes on your mind. Crabbe.
• COUPLING
  A device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends of a belt; a car coupling, which connects the cars in a train; a shaft coupling, which connects the ends of shafts.
• FORTHINK
  To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.
• FORTHWITH
  As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Immediately; without delay; directly. Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith.
• FORTHGOING
  A going forth; an utterance. A. Chalmers.
• FORTHRIGHT
  Straight forward; in a straight direction. Sir P. Sidney.
• TOGETHER
  togædre, togadere; to to + gador together. *29. See To, prep., and 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can
• FORTH
  1. Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth. Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth. Tyndale. From this
• COUPLE-BEGGAR
  One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift.
• UNIONISM
  1. The sentiment of attachment to a federal union, especially to the federal union of the United States. 2. The principles, or the system, of combination among workmen engaged in the same occupation or trade.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• THERMOELECTRIC COUPLE; THERMOELECTRIC PAIR
  A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.
• NONUNIONIST
  One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• EXCOMMUNION
  . A shutting out from communion; excommunication. Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton.
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• NONUNION
  1. Not belonging to, or affiliated with, a trades union; as, a nonunoin carpenter. 2. Not recognizing or favoring trades unions or trades-unionists; as, a nonunion contractor. --Non*un"ion*ism , n.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.