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Word Meanings - DEFENDANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. With men of courage and with means defendant. Shak. 2. Making defense.

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  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • SERVING
    a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant,
  • MAKING-IRON
    A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
  • SERVO-MOTOR
    A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve
  • SERVILELY
    In a servile manner; slavishly.
  • SERVILENESS
    Quality of being servile; servility.
  • SERVABLE
    Capable of being preserved. (more info) 1. Capable of being served. 2. Etym:
  • SERVITORSHIP
    The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell.
  • SERVER
    1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph.
  • DEFENSIVELY
    On the defensive.
  • SERVIAN
    Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe. -- n.
  • DEFENSER
    Defender. Foxe.
  • SERVALINE
    Related to, or resembling, the serval.
  • SERVICE
    The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for
  • COURAGEOUSLY
    In a courageous manner.
  • MAKE
    A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
  • MAKED
    Made. Chaucer.
  • SERVAGE
    Serfage; slavery; servitude. Chaucer.
  • MAKE-UP
    The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
  • MAKESHIFT
    That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
  • DISSERVE
    To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
  • RESERVE
    1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
  • MANTUAMAKER
    One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
  • DESERVEDNESS
    Meritoriousness.
  • ACCOURAGE
    To encourage.
  • BOOTMAKER
    One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
  • CONSERVATIONAL
    Tending to conserve; preservative.
  • BRICKMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
  • MISOBSERVE
    To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
  • SUBSERVIENCE; SUBSERVIENCY
    The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley.
  • INSERVE
    To be of use to an end; to serve.
  • ENCOURAGER
    One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
  • PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
    A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
  • OBSERVANCY
    Observance.
  • MANSERVANT
    A male servant.

 

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