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Word Meanings - MANDIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.

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  • DARKEN
    Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
  • ACCOUNTANTSHIP
    The office or employment of an accountant.
  • RECKON
    reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
  • SCORER
    One who, or that which, scores.
  • RECKONER
    One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
  • ACCOUNTANCY
    The art or employment of an accountant.
  • DISESTEEMER
    One who disesteems. Boyle.
  • PERPLEX
    1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
  • DARKENING
    Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
  • UNDERVALUE
    1. To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate. 2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise. In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. Atterbury. I write not this
  • ACCOUNTABILITY
    The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall.
  • PERPLEXLY
    Perplexedly. Milton.
  • UNDERSTATE
    To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.
  • MYSTIFY
    1. To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture. 2. To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of ; as, to mystify an opponent. He took undue advantage of
  • DISESTEEM
    Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute. Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs. Milton.
  • ACCOUNTABLE
    1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct. 2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden
  • ACCOUNT BOOK
    A book in which accounts are kept. Swift.
  • MISESTIMATE
    To estimate erroneously. J. S. Mill.
  • SCORE
    The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its
  • DARKENER
    One who, or that which, darkens.
  • UNPERPLEX
    To free from perplexity. Donne.
  • DEAD-RECKONING
    See A
  • FOURSCORE
    Four times twenty; eighty.
  • OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
    Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
  • EIGHTSCORE
    Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
  • UNDERSCORE
    To draw a mark or line under; to underline. J. Tucker.

 

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