Word Meanings - DEFECTIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having defects; imperfect. "Some one defectious piece." Sir P. Sidney.
Related words: (words related to DEFECTIOUS)
- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - PIECER
1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - IMPERFECT
1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - PIECEMEALED
Divided into pieces. - PIECEMEAL
1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - HAVANA
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. - HAVERSIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. - IMPERFECTIBLE
Incapable of being mad perfect. - PIECELESS
Not made of pieces; whole; entire. - HAVING
Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak. - HAVIOR
Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to - IMPERFECTIBILITY
The state or quality of being imperfectible. - PIECELY
In pieces; piecemeal. - HAVOC
Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel - HAVER
A possessor; a holder. Shak. - SPARPIECE
The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt. - DRIFTPIECE
An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail. - CODPIECE
A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - AFTERPIECE
The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. - FIELDPIECE
A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun. - BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back. - TIMEPIECE
A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer. - CHIMNEY-PIECE
A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace. - DRAWSHAVE
See KNIFE - MISBEHAVIOR
Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.