Word Meanings - REFRESHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An extra fee paid to counsel in a case that has been adjourned from one term to another, or that is unusually protracted. Ten guineas a day is the highest refresher which a counsel can charge. London Truth. (more info) 1. One who, or that which,

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An extra fee paid to counsel in a case that has been adjourned from one term to another, or that is unusually protracted. Ten guineas a day is the highest refresher which a counsel can charge. London Truth. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, refreshes.

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• EXTRAAXILLAR; EXTRAAXILLARY
  Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• EXTRA-OCULAR
  Inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antennæ of certain insects.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• EXTRAVENATE
  Let out of the veins. "Extravenate blood." Glanvill.
• LONDONISM
  A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
• TRUTHY
  Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.
• EXTRADITABLE
  1. Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice. 2. Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• EXTRADOTAL
  Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property.
• EXTRATERRITORIALITY
  The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory; esp. ,
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• EXTRAVASATE
  To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood.
• EXTRAVAGANT
  + vagance, , p. pr. of vagari to wander, from vagus wandering, vague. 1. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak. 2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained;
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• 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.
• COUNSEL
  fr. the root of consulere to consult, of uncertain origin. Cf. 1. Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation. All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. Matt. xxvii. 1. 2. Examination
• EXTRAUGHT
  Extracted; descended. Knowing whence thou art extraught Shak.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• AMBIDEXTRAL
  Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle.
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
• SURCHARGEMENT
  The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.