Word Meanings - DAIRYMAID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.

Related words: (words related to DAIRYMAID)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• DAIRYWOMAN
  A woman who attends to a dairy.
• DAIRYMAN
  A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.
• DAIRYMAID
  A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• SERVANT
  1. One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his
• DAIRYING
  The business of conducting a dairy.
• SERVANTESS
  A maidservant. Wyclif.
• DAIRY
  Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deigja maid, dairymaid, Sw. deja, orig., a 1. The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese. What stores my dairies and my folds contain. Dryden. 2. That department of farming which is
• FEMALE RHYMES
  double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
• SERVANTRY
  A body of servants; servants, collectively.
• MANSERVANT
  A male servant.
• CONSERVANT
  Having the power or quality of conservation.
• OBSERVANTLY
  In an observant manner.
• OBSERVANTINE
  One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.
• BOND SERVANT
  A slave; one who is bound to service without wages. If thy brother . . . be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant. Lev. xxv. 39, 40.
• EYESERVANT
  A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched.
• MAIDSERVANT
  A female servant.
• INOBSERVANT
  Not observant; regardless; heedless. Bp. Hurd. -- In`ob*serv"ant*ly, adv.