Word Meanings - SCARCEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.

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• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• EARTH FLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• WHEREIN
  1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet
• EARTHDIN
  An earthquake.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• WHEREVER
  At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.
• FOOT
  1. To kick with the foot; to spurn. Shak. 2. To set on foot; to establish; to land. What confederacy have you with the traitors Late footed in the kingdom Shak. 3. To tread; as, to foot the green. Tickell. 4. To sum up, as the numbers in a column;
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• FOOTMARK
  A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• WHERETO
  1. To which; -- used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak. 2. To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.
• FOOTBRIDGE
  A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
• FOOTHOLD
  A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.
• WHEREAS
  1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that;
• EARTHSTAR
  A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
• EARTHBRED
  Low; grovelling; vulgar.
• FOOTFIGHT
  A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
• WHERE'ER
  Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.
• FOOTROPE
  The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse. That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.
• EARTHBANK
  A bank or mound of earth.
• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• SURFOOT
  Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. Nares.
• WHER; WHERE
  Whether. Piers Plowman. Men must enquire , Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer.
• SALTFOOT
  A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
• FOURFOOTED
  Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
• UNEARTHLY
  Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
• EVERYWHERENESS
  Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
• OFFSET
  In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something; as: --
• FOALFOOT
  See COLTSFOOT
• PLOWFOOT; PLOUGHFOOT
  An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow. Piers Plowman.
• SHEEP'S-FOOT
  A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.