Word Meanings - HUCKSTERAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling. Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes. Milton.

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• PEDDLING
  1. Hawking; acting as a peddler. 2. Petty; insignificant. "The miserable remains of a peddling commerce." Burke.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• HUCKSTERER
  A huckster. Gladstone. Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• DEALFISH
  A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
• IGNOBLENESS
  State or quality of being ignoble.
• PEDDLER
  One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.
• DEAL
  The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• DEALBATE
  To whiten. Cockeram.
• IGNOBLE
  Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk. Syn. -- Degenerate; degraded; mean; base; dishonorable; reproachful; disgraceful; shameful; scandalous; infamous. (more info) 1. Of low birth or family; not noble;
• PIDDLING
  Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things. The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. Milton.
• DEALTH
  Share dealt.
• PEDDLERY
  1. The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler. 2. Trifling; trickery. "Look . . . into these their deceitful peddleries." Milton.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• WATER ORDEAL
  See 1
• IDEALOGUE
  One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator. Mrs. Browning.
• IDEALISM
  The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being ideal. 2. Conception
• SOMEDEAL
  Thou lackest somedeal their delight. Spenser.
• HALFENDEAL
  Half; by the part. Chaucer. -- n.