Word Meanings - LIVELODE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Course of life; means of support; livelihood.

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• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• COURSED
  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• COURSE
  1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• COURSEY
  A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• SUPPORTMENT
  Support. Sir H. Wotton.
• SUPPORT
  convey, in LL., to support, sustain; sub under + portare to carry. 1. To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an
• LIVELIHOOD
  Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance. The opportunities of gaining an honest livelihood. Addison. It is their profession and livelihood to get their living by practices for which they deserve
• SUPPORTRESS
  A female supporter. You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger.
• COURSER
  A grallatorial bird of Europe , remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family. (more info) 1. One who courses or hunts. leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads
• SUPPORTANCE
  Support. Shak.
• RECOURSEFUL
  Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
• INTERCOURSE
  A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
• INSUPPORTABLE
  Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• UNSUPPORTABLE
  Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• DISCOURSER
  1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
• BLOCKING COURSE
  The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
• CONCOURSE
  1. A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale. 2. An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving
• BARGECOURSE
  A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Gwilt.
• SCOURSE
  See SCORSE
• WATERCOURSE
  One of the holes in floor or other plates to permit water to flow through.