Word Meanings - JOBBING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Doing chance work or add jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter. 2. Using opportunities of public service for private gain; as, a jobbing politician. London Sat. Rev. Jobbing house, a mercantile establishment which buys from importers, wholesalers or

Additional info about word: JOBBING

1. Doing chance work or add jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter. 2. Using opportunities of public service for private gain; as, a jobbing politician. London Sat. Rev. Jobbing house, a mercantile establishment which buys from importers, wholesalers or manufacturers, and sells to retailers.

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• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• DOWNWEED
  Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
• DONATOR
  One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• DOG-ROSE
  A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.
• DOG'S-EAR
  The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• DOIT
  1. A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money. Shak. 2. A thing of small value; as, I care not a doit.
• DODECASYLLABIC
  Having twelve syllables.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• DORMANCY
  The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
• DOVECOT; DOVECOTE
  A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• DOGMATIC
  One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
• DOMITE
  A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de- Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.
• DOVELET
  A young or small dove. Booth.
• DOQUET
  A warrant. See Docket.
• DODIPATE; DODIPOLL
  A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.
• DOCTORATE
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• USHERDOM
  The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• ANGUINEOUS
  Snakelike.
• ADONAI
  A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord". The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton Yhvh, or Ihvh, "the incommunicable name," and in reading substituted "Adonai".
• MENISCUS
  A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent.
• PROTOGYNOUS
  See PROTEROGYNOUS
• BUSH
  The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See
• PALACIOUS
  Palatial. Graunt.
• RIPARIOUS
  Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• ADORABILITY
  Adorableness.
• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• TROUSSEAU
  The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
• PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
  Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
• POLYPHYLLOUS
  Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• DESMOGNATHOUS
  Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
• BICUSPID
  One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.