Word Meanings - LUXE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Luxury. Shenstone. Édition de luxe (. Etym: A sumptuous edition as regards paper, illustrations, binding, etc.

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• DITIONARY
  A subject; a tributary. Eden.
• EDITION
  1. A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare. 2. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the
• BINDING POST
  A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.
• BINDING
  That binds; obligatory. Binding beam , the main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist , the secondary timber in double-framed flooring. Syn. -- Obligatory; restraining; restrictive; stringent; astringent; costive; styptic.
• LUXURY
  1. A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes. Riches expose a man to pride and luxury. Spectator. 2. Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to
• BINDING SCREW
  A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit.
• SUMPTUOUS
  Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel. We are too magnificient and sumptuous in our tables and attendance. Atterbury. She spoke, and turned
• DITION
  Dominion; rule. Evelyn.
• BINDERY
  A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.
• EDITION DE LUXE
  See LUXE
• PAPERY
  Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.
• BIND
  bunden; akin to D. & G. binden, Dan. binde, Sw. & Icel. binda, Goth. bindan, Skr. bandh to bind, cf. Gr. cable, and L. 1. To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to
• PAPER
  1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.
• BINDINGLY
  So as to bind.
• EDITIONER
  An editor.
• BINDWEED
  A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed ; the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. The fragile bindweed bells
• BINDER
  1. One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books. 2. Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.
• PAPERWEIGHT
  See N
• BINDINGNESS
  The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality. Coleridge.
• BINDHEIMITE
  An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• TRADITIONER; TRADITIONIST
  One who adheres to tradition.
• SEDITION
  L. seditio, originally, a going aside; hence, an insurrectionary separation; pref. se-, sed-, aside + itio a going, fr. ire, itum, to 1. The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• SPELLBIND
  To bind or hold by, or as if by, a spell or charm; to fascinate, esp. by eloquence of speech, as in a political campaign. - - Spell"bind`er , n.
• SURADDITION
  Something added or appended, as to a name. Shak.
• EXPEDITIONARY
  Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.
• ADDITION
  That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
• MISTRADITION
  A wrong tradition. "Monsters of mistradition." Tennyson.
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• PRESUMPTUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being presumptuous.
• TRADITIONALIST
  An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.
• BROMIDE PAPER; BROMID PAPER
  A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.
• CAPPAPER
  See N
• DEPERDITION
  Loss; destruction. Sir T. Browne.