Word Meanings - HIGHBINDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A ruffian; one who hounds, or spies upon, another; app. esp. to the members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese.

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• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• CHINESE
  Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. -- Chinese wax, a snowy-wgite, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus
• ALLEGIANT
  Loyal. Shak.
• ALLEGORIC; ALLEGORICAL
  Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. "An allegoric tale." Falconer. "An allegorical application." Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing,
• ALLEGORIZATION
  The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.
• ALLEGORIZER
  One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.
• ALLEGORIST
  One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.
• ALLEGE
  prop. to free from legal difficulties, fr. an assumed LL. exlitigare; L. ex + litigare to quarrel, sue . The word was 1. To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact. 2. To cite or quote; as, to allege
• ALLEGEABLE
  Capable of being alleged or affirmed. The most authentic examples allegeable in the case. South.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• MEMBERSHIP
  1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society.
• ALLEGORY
  A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured. Syn. -- Metaphor; fable. -- Allegory, Parable. "An allegory differs both from fable and parable, in that the properties of persons are
• RUFFIANLIKE
  Ruffianly. Fulke.
• RUFFIANISH
  Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly.
• ALLEGATION
  A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved. (more info) send a message, cite; later, to free by giving reasons; ad + legare 1. The
• ALLEGORIZE
  1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. 2. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative
• ALLEGEANCE
  Allegation.
• RUFFIANAGE
  Ruffians, collectively; a body of ruffians. "The vilest ruffianage." Sir F. Palgrave.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• INDO-CHINESE
  Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges).
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• NONMEMBERSHIP
  State of not being a member.
• GALLEGAN; GALLEGO
  A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.