Word Meanings - RELATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed. (more info) 1. One who relates; a relater. "The several relators of this history." Fuller.
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- WHOSESOEVER
The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever. - FILOSELLE
A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - FILAMENTOUS
Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray. - FILIPENDULOUS
Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets. - GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - FILLIPEEN
See PHILOPENA - FILIALLY
In a filial manner. - FILLIBEG
A kilt. See Filibeg. - PRIVATEERING
Cruising in a privateer. - FILICAL
Belonging to the Filices, r ferns. - ATTORNEYISM
The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys. - FILLETING
The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively. - FILMINESS
State of being filmy. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - FULLER
One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - KAFILAH
See CAFILA - PROFILE
A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face. A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like. A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - UNNATURE
To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney. - CAFFILA
See CAFILA - PROFILING
In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points. - INFILTRATE
To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something. The water infiltrates through the porous rock. Addison. - CAFILA; CAFILEH
A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.