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Word Meanings - EMBARK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard. 2. To engage, enlist, or invest in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade. It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation. South.

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  • ENTERPARLANCE
    Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
  • ENTERPRISER
    One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
  • PROJECTION
    The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
  • ENTERDEAL
    Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
  • REVERT
    To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
  • RETRACTOR
    One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
  • PROJECTMENT
    Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
  • ABOUT
    On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
  • ENLARGEMENT
    1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
  • PROPELLER
    1. One who, or that which, propels. 2. A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel. 3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
  • ATTRACTABILITY
    The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
  • ENTERPRISE
    1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak.
  • ATTRACTILE
    Having power to attract.
  • ENTEROLITH
    An intestinal concretion.
  • ENTERPLEAD
    See INTERPLEAD
  • ADDUCE
    To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
  • REBOUND
    1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
  • ATTEMPTER
    1. One who attempts; one who essays anything. 2. An assailant; also, a temper.
  • ATTRACTIVE
    1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton. 2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive
  • WITHDRAWAL
    The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
  • MESENTERY
    The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum
  • CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
    To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
  • SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
    The tenets of the Sadducees.
  • COMPROMISE
    promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • REENGAGEMENT
    A renewed or repeated engagement.
  • UNPROMISE
    To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
  • EXSTIPULATE
    Having no stipules. Martyn.
  • REENTERING
    The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.
  • ANENTEROUS
    Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. Owen.
  • ROUNDABOUTNESS
    The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.

 

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