Word Meanings - PLACARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate. Planché. 5. Etym: (more info) tablet; probably from Dutch, cf. D. plakken to paste, post up, plak a 1. A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority. All placards

Additional info about word: PLACARD

An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate. Planché. 5. Etym: (more info) tablet; probably from Dutch, cf. D. plakken to paste, post up, plak a 1. A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority. All placards or edicts are published in his name. Howell. 2. Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something. ller. 3. A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.

Related words: (words related to PLACARD)

• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• ISSUABLY
  In an issuable manner; by way of issue; as, to plead issuably.
• EXTRAAXILLAR; EXTRAAXILLARY
  Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.
• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• EXTRA-OCULAR
  Inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antennæ of certain insects.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• EXTRAVENATE
  Let out of the veins. "Extravenate blood." Glanvill.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• PUBLICNESS
  1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. 2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• EXTRADITABLE
  1. Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice. 2. Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses.
• PUBLICAN
  A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• PLANCHET
  A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.
• EDICT
  A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch. It stands as
• PUBLICATION
  1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel;
• EXTRADOTAL
  Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property.
• EXTRATERRITORIALITY
  The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory; esp. ,
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• WET PLATE
  A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after
• NARCISSUS
  A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds. (more info) Narcissus, Gr. na`rkissos, Na`rkissos, fr. na`rkh torpor,
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• FISSURE
  A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole
• REISSUE
  To issue a second time.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VEILED PLATE
  A fogged plate.
• FISSURATION
  The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.