Word Meanings - OBSERVATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire. Farrow. (more info) 1. A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies. The new observatory in Greenwich Park. Evelyn. 2. A building

Additional info about word: OBSERVATORY

A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire. Farrow. (more info) 1. A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies. The new observatory in Greenwich Park. Evelyn. 2. A building fitted with instruments for making systematic observations of any particular class or series of natural phenomena. 3. A place, as an elevated chamber, from which a view may be observed or commanded.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• FLANK
  1. To border; to touch. Bp. Butler. 2. To be posted on the side.
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• FLANKER
  Etym: 1. To defend by lateral fortifications. Sir T. Herbert. 2. To attack sideways. Evelyn.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• EFFECT
  1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed
• LOOKOUT
  1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event. 2. The place from which such observation is made. 3. A person engaged in watching. 4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
• MAKED
  Made. Chaucer.
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• HEAVENLY
  1. In a manner resembling that of heaven. "She was heavenly true." Shak. 2. By the influence or agency of heaven. Out heavenly guided soul shall climb. Milton.
• MAKE-UP
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• EFFECTOR
  An effecter. Derham.
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• EFFECTUATE
  To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• CITRANGE
  A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• GRANGER
  1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.