Word Meanings - REDUCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To reduce. W. Warde.

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• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• WARDER
  1. One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard. "The warders of the gate." Dryden. 2. A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will. When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind, Casts down his warder
• WARDENRY; WARDENSHIP
  The office or jurisdiction of a warden.
• REDUCER
  One who, or that which, reduces.
• REDUCENT
  Tending to reduce. -- n.
• WARDEN
  A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting. I would have had him roasted like a warden. Beau. & Fl. Warden pie, a pie made of warden pears. Shak. (more info) 1. A keeper; a guardian; a watchman. He called to the warden on the .
• AWARDER
  One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge.
• FIREWARDEN
  An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.
• STEWARDESS
  A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
• FORWARDER
  One employed in forwarding. (more info) 1. One who forwards or promotes; a promoter. Udall. 2. One who sends forward anything; one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant.
• CHURCHWARDEN
  1. One of the officers in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service. 2. A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. There was a small wooden table
• SWARDED
  Covered with sward. Mrs. Browning.
• CHURCHWARDENSHIP
  The office of a churchwarden.
• REWARDER
  One who rewards.