Word Meanings - IDIOTICON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.

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• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• COUNTRY CLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• DIALECTAL
  Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• COUNTRYSIDE
  A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
• COUNTRY BANK
  A national bank not in a reserve city.
• DIALECTIC; DIALECTICAL
  1. Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental. 2. Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects. Earle.
• DIALECTOR
  One skilled in dialectics.
• COUNTRYMAN
  1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak. 2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26. 3. One who
• DIALECTIC
  See SCOTT
• GLOSSARY
  A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.
• COUNTRYWOMAN
  A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.
• COUNTRY-BASE
  See BASE
• DIALECTICALLY
  In a dialectical manner.
• DIALECTICS
  That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion. Note: Dialectics was defined by Aristotle
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
• EXTRADICTIONARY
  Consisting not in words, but in realities. Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne.
• TRANSDIALECT
  To change or translate from one dialect into another. Bp. Warburton.
• UPCOUNTRY
  In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry.
• SUBDIALECT
  A subordinate dialect.