Word Meanings - DEFALCATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc. (more info) orig., to cut off with a sickle; L. de- + falx, a sickle. See

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• DEDUCTIVE
  Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible. All knowledge of causes is deductive. Glanvill. Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process. Whewell.
• DEDUCTIVELY
  By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence. Sir T. Browne.
• SICKLEBILL
  Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer. A curlew. A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• INCOME
  That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. See Food. Opposed to output. Income bond, a bond issued on the income of the corporation or company issuing it,
• MONEY
  fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and
• SICKLESS
  Free from sickness. Give me long breath, young beds, and sickless ease. Marston.
• SICKLE
  A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo. Sickle pod , a kind of rock cress having very long curved pods. (more info) sichel, OHG. sihhila, Dan. segel, segl, L. secula, fr. secare to cut; 1. A reaping instrument consisting
• SICKLER
  One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.
• INCOMER
  1. One who comes in. Outgoers and incomers. Lew Wallace. 2. One who succeeds another, as a tenant of land, houses, etc.
• MONEYED
  1. Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon. 2. Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke. 3. Consisting
• DEDUCT
  Etym: 1. To lead forth or out. A people deducted out of the city of Philippos. Udall. 2. To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of. Deduct what is but vanity, or dress.
• DEDUCTIBLE
  1. Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn. Not one found honestly deductible From any use that pleased him. Mrs. Browning. 2. Deducible; consequential.
• SICKLED
  Furnished with a sickle.
• MONEY-MAKER
  1. One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. 2. One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.
• DEDUCTION
  1. Act or process of deducing or inferring. The deduction of one language from another. Johnson. This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction. J. R. Seely. 2. Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as,
• SICKLEWORT
  A plant of the genus Coronilla ; -- so named from its curved pods. The healall .
• MONEYLESS
  Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift.
• DEDUCTOR
  The pilot whale or blackfish.
• UNDERMONEYED
  Bribed. Fuller.
• UNMONEYED
  Destitute of money; not rich. Shenstone.
• MAUNDY COINS; MAUNDY MONEY
  Silver coins or money of the nominal value of 1d., 2d., 3d., and 4d., struck annually for the Maundy alms.