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Word Meanings - PINFOLD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold. Shak. A parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. Sir W. Scott.

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  • CONFINER
    One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • 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.
  • CONFINABLE
    Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited. Not confinable to any limits. Bp. Hall.
  • POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
    The keeper of a pound.
  • DOMESTICATE
    1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild
  • POUNDCAKE
    A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.
  • POUND
    1. To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks. Dryden. 2. To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as,
  • HEDGELESS
    Having no hedge.
  • HEDGEPIG
    A young hedgehog. Shak.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • POUNDER
    1. One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill. 2. An instrument used for pounding; a pestle. 3. A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying
  • PLACER
    One who places or sets. Spenser.
  • PLACE
    Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
  • HEDGEBOTE
    See HAYBOTE
  • HEDGEHOG
    A small European insectivore , and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction.
  • PARISHEN
    A parishioner. Chaucer.
  • HEDGEROW
    A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields. By hedgerow elms and hillocks green. Milton.
  • POUNDING
    1. The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating. 2. A pounded or pulverized substance. "Covered with the poundings of these rocks." J. S. Blackie.
  • TEN-POUNDER
    A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
  • ASSAY POUND
    A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
  • IMPOUNDER
    One who impounds.
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • COMPOUNDER
    A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
  • COMPOUNDABLE
    That may be compounded.
  • SEA HEDGEHOG
    A sea urchin.
  • ASTRAY
    Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.
  • COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
    1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
  • MISEXPOUND
    To expound erroneously.
  • IMPOUNDAGE
    1. The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded. 2. The fee or fine for impounding.

 

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