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Word Meanings - HOVERER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A device in an incubator for protecting the young chickens and keeping them warm.

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  • YOUNGISH
    Somewhat young. Tatler.
  • INCUBATOR
    That which incubates, especially, an apparatus by means of which eggs are hatched by artificial heat.
  • YOUNG
    , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
  • PROTECT
    To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
  • YOUNGTH
    Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
  • PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
    A woman who protects.
  • YOUNGNESS
    The quality or state of being young.
  • PROTECTORIAL
    See PROTECTORAL
  • DEVICEFUL
    Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.
  • PROTECTORLESS
    Having no protector; unprotected.
  • YOUNG ONE
    A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt.
  • PROTECTIVE
    Affording protection; sheltering; defensive. " The favor of a protective Providence." Feltham. Protective coloring , coloring which serves for the concealment and preservation of a living organism. Cf. Mimicry. Wallace. -- Protective tariff ,
  • PROTECTIONIST
    One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
  • PROTECTIVENESS
    The quality or state of being protective. W. Pater.
  • KEEPER
    1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
  • YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which
  • DEVICEFULLY
    In a deviceful manner.
  • KEEPERSHIP
    The office or position of a keeper. Carew.
  • KEEP
    k, AS.c to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. 1. To care; to desire. I kepe not of armes for to yelp . Chaucer. 2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to
  • PROTECTIONISM
    The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.
  • SAFE-KEEPING
    The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
  • YOUNGLY
    Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
  • OUTKEEPER
    An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
  • INNKEEPER
    An innholder.
  • POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
    Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
  • POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
    The keeper of a pound.
  • CROWKEEPER
    A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper. Shak.

 

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