Word Meanings - POSTPONEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay. Macaulay.
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- PUTTYROOT
An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called - PUTTER-ON
An instigator. Shak. - PUTT
A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole. - PUTTING GREEN
The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules. - POSTPONE
1. To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely. His praise postponed, and never to be - POSTPONER
One who postpones. - FUTURELY
In time to come. Raleigh. - PUTTEE
See GAITER - FUTURE
That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present. Future tense , the tense or modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event. - PUTTOCK
The European kite. The buzzard. The marsh harrier. - PUTTER
1. One who puts or plates. 2. Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like. - POSTPONEMENT
The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay. Macaulay. - FUTURELESS
Without prospect of betterment in the future. W. D. Howells. - DELAY
A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay. (more - PUTTY-FACED
White-faced; -- used contemptuously. Clarke. - PUTTY
A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes. Putty - DEFERRER
One who defers or puts off. - POSTPONENCE
The act of postponing, in sense 2. Johnson. - TEMPORARY
Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief. Temporary government of the city. Motley. Temporary star. See under Star. - DELAYER
One who delays; one who lingers. - CONTEMPORARY
1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype. 2. Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees, - EXTEMPORARY
1. Extemporaneous. "In extemporary prayer." Fuller. 2. Made for the occasion; for the time being. "Extemporary habitations." Maundrell. - ROUNDELAY
See ROUNDEL - SPUTTER
1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. 2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell