Word Meanings - FREE-SPOKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Accustomed to speak without reserve. Bacon. -- Free"-spo`ken-ness, n.
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- 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. - ACCUSTOMARILY
Customarily. - BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - ACCUSTOMEDNESS
Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce. - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - SPEAKERSHIP
The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives. - ACCUSTOMABLE
Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer. - SPEAKER
1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides - ACCUSTOMABLY
According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer. - WITHOUTEN
Without. Chaucer. - RESERVEE
One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor. - ACCUSTOMARY
Usual; customary. Featley. - SPEAK
1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13. 2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; - WITHOUT
1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer. - SPEAKING
1. The act of uttering words. 2. Public declamation; oratory. - RESERVER
One who reserves. - RESERVE CITY
In the national banking system of the United States, any of certain cities in which the national banks are required (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve than the minimum required of all other banks. The banks in certain of the - RESERVED
1. Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater. 2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank. To - BESPEAKER
One who bespeaks. - OUTSPEAK
1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak. - DISACCUSTOM
To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson. - UNBESPEAK
To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys. - FORSPEAK
1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton. - FORESPEAKING
A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet. - UNSPEAK
To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay. Shak. - UNRESERVED
Not reserved; not kept back; not withheld in part; unrestrained. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ness, n. - BESPEAK
besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be- + sprecan to speak. See 1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was - PRESERVER
1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. 2. One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game.