Word Meanings - SCATTERLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.

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• FIXTURE
  Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
• FOREIGNER
  A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham.
• FOREIGNNESS
  The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.
• VAGABONDAGE
  The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
• FIXING
  Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. (more info) 1. The act or process of making fixed. 2. That which is fixed; a fixture. 3. pl.
• FIX
  Fixed; solidified. Chaucer.
• VAGABONDISM
  Vagabondage.
• FIXURE
  Fixed position; stable condition; firmness. Shak.
• FIXEDLY
  In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.
• VAGABONDIZE
  To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
• HABITATION
  1. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham. 2. Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house. The Lord . . . blesseth the habitation of the just. Prov. iii. 33.
• FIXATION
  1. The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed. An unalterable fixation of resolution. Killingbeck. To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of
• RESIDENCE
  The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence. 4. The place where anything rests permanently. But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights
• FIXABLE
  Capable of being fixed.
• FIXIDITY
  Fixedness. Boyle.
• FIXATIVE
  That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.
• FIXITY
  1. Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed. 2. Coherence of parts. Sir I. Newton.
• FIXEDNESS
  1. The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness. 2. The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• VAGABONDRY
  Vagabondage.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• CONFIXURE
  Act of fastening.
• INHABITATION
  1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and
• PREFIX
  prae before + figere to fix: cf. F. préfix fixed beforehand, 1. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement. 2. To set or appoint beforehand; to settle
• SUFFIX
  A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a. (more info) 1. A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
• TRANSFIX
  To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.
• PERFIX
  To fix surely; to appoint.
• CRUCIFIXION
  1. The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment. 2. The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross. 3.