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Word Meanings - CUTLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments.

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  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • CUTTING
    1. Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool. 2. Chilling; penetratinn; sharp; as, a cutting wind. 3. Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.
  • CUTTHROAT
    One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
  • OTHER
    andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
  • OTHERNESS
    The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
  • CUTTYSTOOL
    1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
  • MAKESHIFT
    That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
  • KNIVES
    of Knife. See Knife.
  • OTHERGATES
    In another manner. He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.
  • CUTTY
    1. A short spoon. 2. A short tobacco pipe. Ramsay. 3. A light or unchaste woman. Sir W. Scott.
  • OTHERWISE
    1. In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily. Chaucer. Thy father was a worthy prince, And merited, alas! a better fate; But Heaven thought otherwise. Addison. 2. In other respects. It is said, truly, that
  • CUTTLE BONE
    The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
  • CUTTINGLY
    In a cutting manner.
  • OTHERWAYS
    See TYNDALE
  • CUTTLE
    A knife. Bale.
  • OTHERWHERE
    In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere. Milton. Tennyson.
  • CUTTOO PLATE
    A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.
  • CUTTER
    1. One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments. 2. That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.
  • OTHERWHILE; OTHERWHILES
    At another time, or other times; sometimes; Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more. Holland.
  • CUTTLE; CUTTLEFISH
    A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally. Note: It has an
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • STRAW-CUTTER
    An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • ISOTHERMAL
    Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
  • EEL-MOTHER
    The eelpout.
  • ISOTHERMOBATHIC
    Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
  • MOTHER-OF-PEARL
    The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
  • MOTHER'S DAY
    A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
  • STEPMOTHER
    The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
  • SWARD-CUTTER
    A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
  • DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
    A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
  • MOTHERING
    A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
  • MOTHERLESS
    Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
  • FOTHER
    fuder a cartload, a unit of measure, OHG. fuodar, D. voeder, and perh. to E. fathom, or cf. Skr. patra vessel, dish. Cf. Fodder a 1. A wagonload; a load of any sort. Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer. 2. See Fodder, a unit of weight.

 

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