Word Meanings - INQUIRER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper.

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• EXPERT
  Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• TRUTHY
  Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.
• LOCKER
  1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• LOCKET
  1. A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament. 2. A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
• AFTER DAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• AFTER-NOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• TRUTHLESS
  Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.
• TRUTH-LOVER
  One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.
• AFTERWISE
  Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
• LOCKEN
  of Lock. Chaucer.
• AFTERINGS
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose.
• AFTER-EATAGE
  Aftergrass.
• AFTERGUARD
  The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten.
• AFTER-DINNER
  The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. -- a.
• UNEXPERTLY
  In an unexpert manner.
• GLOCKENSPIEL
  An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.
• INEXPERT
  1. Destitute of experience or of much experience. Milton. 2. Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice. Akenside.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• THEREAFTER
  1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,
• INGRAFTER
  A person who ingrafts.
• WAFTER
  1. One who, or that which, wafts. O Charon, Thou wafter of the soul to bliss or bane. Beau. & FL. 2. A boat for passage. Ainsworth.