Word Meanings - PRECAUTIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Taking or using precaution; precautionary. -- Pre*cau"tious*ly, adv. -- Pre*cau"*tious*ness, n.
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- USHERDOM
The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively. - TAKING
1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n. - USTULATE
Blackened as if burned. - PRECAUTION
praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries - USURY
1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii. - USURPANT
Usurping; encroaching. Gauden. - USQUEBAUGH
of life; uisge water + beatha life; akin to Gr. bi`os life. See 1. A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott. 2. A liquor - USURIOUS
1. Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person. 2. Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract. -- U*su"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- U*su"ri*ous*ness, n. - TAKE
Taken. Chaucer. - USURER
1. One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender. If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. Ex. xxii. 25. 2. One who lends money at - USUFRUCTUARY
A person who has the use of property and reaps the profits of it. Wharton. - USURPATURE
Usurpation. "Beneath man's usurpature." R. Browning. - TAKE-OFF
An imitation, especially in the way of caricature. - USUCAPTION
The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law. (more info) use; usu + capere to take: cf. usucapio - USURPATORY
Marked by usurpation; usurping. - USUFRUCT
The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance. Burrill. - USURPER
One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron. A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it. - PRECAUTIONARY
Of or pertaining to precaution, or precautions; as, precautionary signals. - USAGE
1. The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage. My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty. Shak. - USBEGS; USBEKS
A Turkish tribe which about the close of the 15th century conquered, and settled in, that part of Asia now called Turkestan. - PROTOGYNOUS
See PROTEROGYNOUS - MENISCUS
A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent. - ANGUINEOUS
Snakelike. - MALACOSTOMOUS
Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes. - TROUSSEAU
The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family. - PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut. - BUSH
The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See - POLYPHYLLOUS
Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth. - PROVENTRIULUS
The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop. - PALACIOUS
Palatial. Graunt. - RIPARIOUS
Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian. - STEATOPYGOUS
Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton. - DESMOGNATHOUS
Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds. - ANTIBILLOUS
Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness. - RUSHED
Abounding or covered with rushes. - CARNIVOROUS
Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics. - BARBAROUS
slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous - BICUSPID
One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n. - HORRISONOUS
Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey. - LUSTROUS
Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.