Word Meanings - HACIENDA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word

Additional info about word: HACIENDA

A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions. (more info) estate, fr. L. facienda, pl. of faciendum what is to be done, fr.

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• MINOR
  Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor , the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode , that mode,
• MINIONLIKE; MINIONLY
  Like a minion; daintily. Camden.
• ESTATE
  1. To establish. Beau. & Fl. 2. Tom settle as a fortune. Shak. 3. To endow with an estate. Then would I . . . Estate them with large land and territory. Tennyson.
• MINTMAN
  One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.
• MINETTE
  The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
• MINOS
  A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.
• WHEREIN
  1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet
• MINUS
  Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity. Minus sign , the sign denoting minus, or less, prefixed to negative quantities, or quantities to be subtracted. See Negative sign, under Negative.
• MINNESINGER
  A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
• WHEREVER
  At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.
• FARMERESS
  A woman who farms.
• MINSTRELSY
  1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven."
• MINE
  1. A subterranean cavity or passage; especially: A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural
• MINGE
  A small biting fly; a midge.
• FARMSTEAD
  A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle.
• MINACIOUS
  Threatening; menacing.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• MINYAN
  A quorum, or number necessary, for conducting public worship.
• MINIACEOUS; MINACEOUS
  Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate.
• MINIARD
  Migniard.
• ALUMINATE
  A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.
• AGMINATE; AGMINATED
  Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine.
• SEEMINGNESS
  Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
• BABY FARMING
  The business of keeping a baby farm.
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• CARBAMINE
  An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• LIVRAISON
  A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• WAREHOUSE
  A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.
• POSTHOUSE
  1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office.