Word Meanings - HALL-MARK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.

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• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• SILVERFIN
  A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
• PURITY
  The condition of being pure. Specifically: freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "The purity of a linen vesture." Holyday. Freedom from
• ASSAY POUND
  A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• SILVERIZE
  To cover with silver.
• STAMP
  1. To strike; to beat; to crush. These cooks how they stamp and strain and grind. Chaucer. 2. To strike the foot forcibly downward. But starts, exclaims, and stamps, and raves, and dies. dennis.
• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• SILVER STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
• UNITIVE
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
• UNITARIANISM
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• STAMPING
  from Stamp, v. Stamping ground, a place frequented, and much trodden, by animals, wild or domesticated; hence , the scene of one's labors or exploits; also, one's favorite resort. -- Stamping machine, a machine for forming metallic articles or
• UNITARIANIZE
  To change or turn to Unitarian views.
• OFFICIALTY
  The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
• OFFICIAL
  1. One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant. 2. An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction. Blackstone.
• SILVER
  1. Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup. 2. Resembling silver. Specifically: Bright; resplendent; white. "Silver hair." Shak. Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast. Milton. Precious;
• SILVERWEED
  A perennial rosaceous herb having the leaves silvery white beneath.
• UNIT
  The least whole number; one. Units are the integral parts of any large number. I. Watts. 3. A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings. Camden. 4. Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat,
• OTHER
  andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
• UNITABLE
  Capable of union by growth or otherwise. Owen.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who