Word Meanings - PIECEWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed. The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre. R. Jefferies.
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- BASKING SHARK
One of the largest species of sharks , so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species. - BASIFY
To convert into a salifiable base. - BASILIC; BASILICAL
Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm. (more info) 1. Royal; kingly; also, basilican. - BASS VIOL
A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello. - BASSWOOD
The bass or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow. - BASTARDLY
Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. -- adv. - RATHER
Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville. - BASKET BALL
A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets. - BASAL
Relating to, or forming, the base. Basal cleavage. See under Cleavage. -- Basal plane , one parallel to the lateral or horizontal axis. - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - BASINET
See BASCINET - BASED
Wearing, or protected by, bases. "Based in lawny velvet." E. Hall. (more info) 1. Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based. 2. Etym: - BASIFIER
That which converts into a salifiable base. - REAPPORTIONMENT
A second or a new apportionment. - BASTE
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. 3. To mark with tar, as sheep. (more info) 1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the - BASICITY
The quality or state of being a base. The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid. - BASENESS
The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak. - REAPPOINT
To appoint again. - BASIGYNIUM
The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore. - BASTARD
F. b, a packsaddle used as a bed by the muleteers + -ard. OF. fils de bast son of the packsaddle; as the muleteers were accustomed to use their saddles for beds in the inns. See Cervantes, 1. A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of - UNEMPLOYMENT
Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent. - POLYBASIC
Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as, sulphuric acid is polybasic. - POLYBASITE
An iron-black ore of silver, consisting of silver, sulphur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic. - SPARPIECE
The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt. - UNBASHFUL
Not bashful or modest; bold; impudent; shameless. Shak. - CALABASH
Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + 1. The common gourd . 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. 3. A water dipper, bottle, backet, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. Calabash tree. - DEMIBASTION
A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank. - ALABASTRIAN
Alabastrine.