Word Meanings - IMPOSTURAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor.

Related words: (words related to IMPOSTURAGE)

• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• CHEATABLENESS
  Capability of being cheated.
• IMPOSTURE
  The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. Johnson. Syn. -- Cheat; fraud; trick; imposition; delusion.
• IMPOSTURED
  Done by imposture.
• CHEATER
  1. One who cheats. 2. An escheator. Shak.
• CHEAT
  A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess. (more info) that fall to a lord or to the state by forfeiture, or by the death of the tenant without heirs; the meaning being explained by the frauds, real
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• SELF-IMPOSTURE
  Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.
• TRACHEATE
  Breathing by means of tracheæ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
• ESCHEATAGE
  The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood.
• ESCHEAT
  escheit, escheoit, escheeite, esheoite, fr. escheoir to fall to, fall to the lot of; pref. es- + cheoir, F. choir, to The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction
• ESCHEATABLE
  Liable to escheat.
• BELLYCHEAT
  An apron or covering for the front of the person. Beau. & Fl.
• TRACHEATA
  An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheæ, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiæ.
• OUTCHEAT
  To exceed in cheating.
• EXCHEAT
  See SPENSER
• EXCHEATOR
  See ESCHEATOR
• RECHEAT
  A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.
• PROTOTRACHEATA
  See MALACOPODA