Word Meanings - PARCELING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc. (more info) 1. The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.

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• NARROW
  A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.
• SERVING
  a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant,
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• DISTRIBUTIVENESS
  Quality of being distributive.
• MOUSSE
  A frozen dessert of a frothy texture, made of sweetened and flavored whipped cream, sometimes with the addition of egg yolks and gelatin. Mousse differs from ice cream in being beaten before -- not during -- the freezing process.
• MOUSIE
  Diminutive for Mouse. Burns.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• SERVO-MOTOR
  A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• MOUSY
  Infested with mice; smelling of mice.
• SERVABLE
  Capable of being preserved. (more info) 1. Capable of being served. 2. Etym:
• DAUBER
  A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber. 3. A low and gross flattere. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
• SERVITORSHIP
  The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell.
• SERVER
  1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph.
• MOUSEFISH
  See FROGFISH
• DAUBERY; DAUBRY
  A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses. She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is. Shak.
• SLIPSHOD
  1. Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel. The shivering urchin bending as he goes, With slipshod heels. Cowper. 2. Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style
• DAUBING
  1. The act of one who daubs; that which is daubed. 2. A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast. 3. In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing. Knight.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• ANGIOMONOSPERMOUS
  Producing one seed only in a seed pod.
• DISSERVE
  To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
• SCHIZOPELMOUS
  Having the two flexor tendons of the toes entirely separate, and the flexor hallicus going to the first toe only.
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• HETERONYMOUS
  Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations. J. Le Conte. -- Het"er*on"y*mous*ly, adv.
• BLASPHEMOUS
  Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. "Blasphemous publications." Porteus. Nor from the Holy
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• AUTOGAMOUS
  Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.
• TRACHYSPERMOUS
  Rough-seeded. Gray.
• INFAMOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
• SEA MOUSE
  A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setæ on the sides. The dunlin.
• INFORMOUS
  Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne.
• CONSERVATIONAL
  Tending to conserve; preservative.