Word Meanings - LUNCHEON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A lump of food. 2. A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast, as between breakfast and dinner.
Related words: (words related to LUNCHEON)
- EXCEPT
1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak. - LIGHT
licht, OHG. lioht, Goth. liuhap, Icel. lj, L. lux light, lucere to 1. That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. Note: Light was regarded formerly - REPASTURE
Food; entertainment. Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak. - REGULARITY
The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion. - LIGHTSOME
1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness - PORTIONIST
One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley. - DINNERLY
Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley. - LIGHTNESS
The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility; - EXCEPTIONER
One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton. - LIGHT-ARMED
Armed with light weapons or accouterments. - REGULARIA
A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins. - LIGHTERAGE
1. The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter. 2. The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter. - LIGHT-O'-LOVE
1. An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters. Nares. "Best sing it to the tune of light-o'-love." Shak. 2. Hence: A light or wanton woman. Beau. & Fl. - LIGHT-FOOT; LIGHT-FOOTED
Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. Tennyson. - LIGHTHOUSE
A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos. - EXCEPTIONAL
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv. - REPAST
L. repascere to feed again; pref. re- re- + pascere, pastum, to 1. The act of taking food. From dance to sweet repast they turn. Milton. 2. That which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment. "Sleep . . . thy best repast." Denham. - EXCEPTANT
Making exception. - LIGHTWOOD
Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze. - EXCEPTLESS
Not exceptional; usual. My general and exceptless rashness. Shak. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - DELIGHTING
Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - IRREGULARITY
The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular. - DRUMMOND LIGHT
A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called - PROPORTIONATE
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke. - DELIGHTLESS
Void of delight. Thomson. - REAPPORTIONMENT
A second or a new apportionment. - MISPROPORTION
To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion. - SLIGHTEN
To slight. B. Jonson. - LAMPLIGHTER
The calico bass. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps. - FLIGHTER
A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight.