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Word Meanings - GODSEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.

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  • UNEXPECTATION
    Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
  • UNEXPECTED
    Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.
  • PIECER
    1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
  • FORTUNELESS
    Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
  • PIECEMEALED
    Divided into pieces.
  • PIECEMEAL
    1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
  • PIECELESS
    Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
  • PIECELY
    In pieces; piecemeal.
  • SOMETHING
    1. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. There is something in the wind. Shak. The whole world has something
  • PIECENER
    1. One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills. 2. Same as Piecer, 2.
  • PIECE
    One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn. 6. A castle; a fortified building. Spenser. Of a piece, of the same sort, as if taken from the same whole; like; -- sometimes followed by with. Dryden. -- Piece of eight, the Spanish piaster,
  • FORTUNE
    chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See Bear to support, and cf. 1. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success,
  • PIECEWORK
    Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed. The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre. R. Jefferies.
  • SPARPIECE
    The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
  • MISFORTUNED
    Unfortunate.
  • DRIFTPIECE
    An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
  • CODPIECE
    A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
  • AFTERPIECE
    The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
  • FIELDPIECE
    A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
  • WHEEL OF FORTUNE
    A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
  • BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
    A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
  • TIMEPIECE
    A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
  • CHIMNEY-PIECE
    A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.
  • SEAPIECE
    A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture. Addison.
  • SIDEPIECE
    The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.
  • BEFORTUNE
    To befall. I wish all good befortune you. Shak.
  • APIECES
    In pieces or to pieces. "Being torn apieces." Shak.

 

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