Word Meanings - PETTIFOG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way. "He takes no money, but pettifogs gratis." S. Butler.

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• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• BUTLERSHIP
  The office of a butler.
• BUTLER
  An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house. The butler and the baker of the king of Egypt. Gen. xl. 5. Your wine locked up, your
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• PETTYWHIN
  The needle furze. See under Needle.
• LAWYER
  1. One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general
• MONEY
  fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• GRATIS
  For nothing; without fee or recompense; freely; gratuitously.
• MONEYED
  1. Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon. 2. Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke. 3. Consisting
• TRICKY
  Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
• BUTLERAGE
  A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.
• PETTY
  Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. Milton. Petty averages. See under Average. -- Petty cash, money expended or received in small
• MONEY-MAKER
  1. One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. 2. One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.
• LAWYERLIKE; LAWYERLY
  Like, or becoming, a lawyer; as, lawyerlike sagacity. "Lawyerly mooting of this point." Milton.
• MONEYLESS
  Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift.
• PETTYCHAPS
  Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler .
• MONEYWORT
  A trailing plant , with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.
• MONEY-MAKING
  The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth. Obstinacy in money-making. Milman.
• PENANG LAWYER
  A kind of walking stick made from the stem of an East Asiatic palm .
• UNDERMONEYED
  Bribed. Fuller.
• UNMONEYED
  Destitute of money; not rich. Shenstone.
• SEA LAWYER
  The gray snapper. See under Snapper.