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Word Meanings - CUSPIDOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any ornamental vessel used as a spittoon; hence, to avoid the common term, a spittoon of any sort.

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  • 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.
  • ORNAMENTAL
    Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
  • COMMONISH
    Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
  • COMMONLY
    1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
  • 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;
  • COMMONITION
    Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey.
  • AVOIDLESS
    Unavoidable; inevitable.
  • VESSELFUL
    As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
  • COMMONAGE
    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.
  • AVOIDANCE
    1. The act of annulling; annulment. 2. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . .
  • COMMONS
    1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled chasses or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. 'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. Shak. The word commons in its present
  • COMMONPLACE
    Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
  • AVOIDER
    1. The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson. 2. One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
  • COMMON SENSE
    See SENSE
  • COMMONNESS
    1. State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight. 2. Triteness; meanness.
  • HENCE
    ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
  • COMMON
    comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Coth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. Immunity, Commune, n. 1. Belonging or relating equally, or
  • COMMONALTY
    1. The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons. The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees. Blackstone. The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the
  • ORNAMENTALLY
    By way of ornament.
  • SPITTOON
    A spitbox; a cuspidor.
  • UNCOMMON
    Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • INTERCOMMON
    To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
  • HEREHENCE
    From hence.
  • WHENCEFORTH
    From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
  • THENCEFROM
    From that place.
  • UNAVOIDED
    1. Not avoided or shunned. Shak. 2. Unavoidable; inevitable. B. Jonson.
  • AIR VESSEL
    A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheƦ, of plants spiral
  • DEWAR VESSEL
    A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according
  • INTERCOMMONAGE
    The right or privilege of intercommoning.
  • DISCOMMON
    To deprive of commonable quality, as lands, by inclosing or appropriating. Burrill. (more info) 1. To deprive of the right of common. Bp. Hall. 2. To deprive of privileges. T. Warton.
  • THENCE
    see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark

 

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