Word Meanings - HEDGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.

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• BETTONG
  A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.
• BETTY
  A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters. 3. A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called
• BETTERMOST
  Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham.
• BETTOR
  One who bets; a better. Addison.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• BETTERMENT
  An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural. Bouvier. (more info) 1. A making better; amendment; improvement. W. Montagu.
• BETTER
  bet, AS. betera, adj., and bet, adv.; akin to Icel. betri, adj., betr, adv., Goth. batiza, adj., OHG. bezziro, adj., baz, adv., G. besser, adj. and adv., bass, adv., E. boot, and prob. to Skr. bhadra 1. Having good qualities in a greater degree
• BETTERNESS
  1. The quality of being better or superior; superiority. Sir P. Sidney. 2. The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.
• MENDS
  See SHAK
• ABETTAL
  Abetment.
• ABETTER; ABETTOR
  One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. Note: The form abettor is the legal term and also in general use. Syn. -- Abettor, Accessory, Accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime. An abettor
• BARBETTE
  A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. En barbette, In barbette, said of guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. -- Barbette
• EMBETTER
  To make better.
• AMENDS
  Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. Shak.