Word Meanings - FREE-SOIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856. -- Free"soil`er, n. -- Free"-soil`ism, n.

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• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• ADVOCATION
  The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. Bell. (more info) 1. The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy. The holy Jesus . . . sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us. Jer. Taylor. 2. Advowson.
• DURAMEN
  The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• DURIO
  A fruit tree of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• DUROUS
  Hard.
• PERIODONTAL
  Surrounding the teeth.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• DURANTE
  During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• DURANCY
  Duration. Dr. H. More.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• DURRA
  A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• DUR
  Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.
• DURABILITY
  The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• REVERDURE
  To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• PODURA
  Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s,
• ANTIPERIODIC
  A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
• OBDURATION
  A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
• ORDURE
  1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak. 2. Defect; imperfection; fault. Holland.
• RETROACTIVE
  Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. Retroactive law or statute , one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to
• BORDURE
  A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.