Word Meanings - INDISTINCTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having nothing distinctive; common. -- In`dis*tinc"tive*ness, n.
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- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - NOTHINGNESS
1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value. - COMMONER
1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - DISTINCTIVENESS
State of being distinctive. - COMMONISH
Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar. - COMMONLY
1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - DISTINCTIVE
1. Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft. 2. Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating. Sir T. Browne. - COMMONWEALTH
Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state; - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - COMMONITION
Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey. - HAVANA
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. - HAVERSIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. - COMMONAGE
The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke. - COMMONS
1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled chasses or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. 'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. Shak. The word commons in its present - COMMONPLACE
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation. - HAVING
Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak. - UNCOMMON
Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n. - MONOTHALAMAN
A foraminifer having but one chamber. - FELLOW-COMMONER
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. - INTERCOMMON
To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon. - MONOTHALMIC
Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - AGONOTHETE
An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece. - KNOW-NOTHING
A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - NEGINOTH
Stringed instruments. Dr. W. Smith. To the chief musician on Neginoth. Ps. iv. 9heading).