Word Meanings - JAPANESE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants.

JAPAN CURRENT
A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
JAPANNED
Treated, or coated, with varnish in the Japanese manner. Japanned leather,leather treated with coatings of Japan varnish, and dried in a stove. Knight.
JAPANESE
Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants.
JAPANNING
The art or act of varnishing in the Japanese manner.
PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
JAPANNISH
After the manner of the Japanese; resembling japanned articles. Carlyle.
JAPANNER
1. One who varnishes in the manner of the Japanese, or one skilled in the art. 2. A bootblack.
JAPAN
Work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner; also, the varnish or lacquer used in japanning.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach