Word Meanings - EXAMINING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee.
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- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - EXAMINABLE
Capable of being examined or inquired into. Bacon. - POWERABLE
1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - EXAMINING
Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee. - APPOINTER
One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent. - 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. - APPOINTMENT
The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - APPOINTOR
The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2. - APPOINTIVE
Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. - 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. - APPOINT
To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. Crowley. (more info) prepare, - 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. - EXAMINANT
1. One who examines; an examiner. Sir W. Scott. 2. One who is to be examined. H. Prideaux. - 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 - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - CANDLE POWER
Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. - PREEXAMINATION
Previous examination. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - IMPOWER
See EMPOWER - REAPPOINT
To appoint again. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - PREAPPOINTMENT
Previous appointment. - REEXAMINABLE
Admitting of being reëxamined or reconsidered. Story. - POLICE POWER
The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers - DISEMPOWER
To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.