Word Meanings - FARM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. State Trials . (more info) 1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part
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A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. State Trials . (more info) 1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products. 2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants. Spenser. 3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation. 4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner. Note: In English the ideas of a lease, a term, and a rent, continue to be in a great degree inseparable, even from the popular meaning of a farm, as they are entirely so from the legal sense. Burrill. 5. A district of country leased out for the collection of the revenues of government. The province was devided into twelve farms. Burke.
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- SUGARPLUM
A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks. - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - ANNUMERATE
To add on; to count in. Wollaston. - LEASE
To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. Dryden. - STATE SOCIALISM
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to - SUGARED
Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser. - SUGARY
1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser. 2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate. - MARKSMAN
One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents. Burrill. (more info) 1. One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well. - STATECRAFT
The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship. - PARTICULARITY
1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity." - PARTICULARLY
1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil - SUGARLESS
Without sugar; free from sugar. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - STATESMANLY
Becoming a statesman. - STATESMAN
1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light - LEASEHOLD
Held by lease. - PARTICULARISM
The doctrine of particular election. (more info) 1. A minute description; a detailed statement. - STATEDLY
At stated times; regularly. - GOODSHIP
Favor; grace. Gower. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - RELEASE
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back. - ABORIGINALLY
Primarily. - KATASTATE
A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic. - BAYOU STATE
Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous. - REESTATE
To reëstablish. Walis. - BLACKWATER STATE
Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil. - ARISTATE
Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray. - BICOSTATE
Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf. - TRIPLICOSTATE
Three-ribbed. - DEHONESTATE
To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see - DEVASTATE
To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage. - APOSTATE
One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a