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Word Meanings - HEADNOTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court.

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  • OPINIONATOR
    An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
  • INVOLVEDNESS
    The state of being involved.
  • ABSTRACTION
    The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
  • COURTESAN
    A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
  • SHOWROOM
    A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
  • SHOWILY
    In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
  • OPINIONATE
    Opinionated.
  • COURT TENNIS
    See TENNIS
  • COURT-CUPBOARD
    A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
  • ABSTRACTEDLY
    In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
  • COURTEPY
    A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
  • COURTBRED
    Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
  • SHOWING
    1. Appearance; display; exhibition. 2. Presentation of facts; statement. J. S. Mill.
  • SHOWER
    1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
  • SHOWMAN
    One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
  • COURTESANSHIP
    Harlotry.
  • COURT-MARTIAL
    A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
  • ABSTRACTITIOUS
    Obtained from plants by distillation. Crabb.
  • ABSTRACTNESS
    The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke.
  • COURTLIKE
    After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
  • VARIETY SHOW
    A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
  • RAREE-SHOW
    A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.
  • OUTCOURT
    An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.
  • THUNDERSHOWER
    A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.

 

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