Word Meanings - SCHILLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.

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• GERMAN
  1. A native or one of the people of Germany. 2. The German language. A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures. A social party at which the german is danced. High German, the Teutonic dialect of Upper
• GERMANIC
  1. Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy. 2. Teutonic.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• GERMANIZATION
  The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
• COINSTANTANEOUS
  Happening at the same instant. C. Darwin.
• WORTH
  1. That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price. What 's worth in
• WORTHWHILE
  Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.
• WORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth. Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness Donne. She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her
• WORTHFUL
  Full of worth; worthy; deserving. Marston.
• GERMANISM
  1. An idiom of the German language. 2. A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. J. W. Alexander.
• GERMANE
  Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more germane to the matter. Shak. must be germane. Barclay .
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• WORTHY
  A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies. The blood of ancient worthies
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SEVERAL
  1. Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. There was not time enough to hear . . . The severals. Shak. 2. Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many. Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor
• WORTHILY
  In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly. You worthily succeed not only to the honors of your ancestors, but also to their virtues. Dryden. Some may very worthily deserve to be hated. South.
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• SEVERALLY
  Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• SEVERALTY
  A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• PETWORTH MARBLE
  A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.
• PENNYWORTH
  1. A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny. "A dear pennyworth." Evelyn. 2. Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain. The priests sold the better pennyworths. Locke. 3.
• DOGGERMAN
  A sailor belonging to a dogger.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• BROTHER GERMAN
  A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.
• INDO-GERMANIC
  1. Same as Aryan, and Indo-European. 2. Pertaining to or denoting the Teutonic family of languages as related to the Sanskrit, or derived from the ancient Aryan language.
• LAUGHWORTHY
  Deserving to be laughed at. B. Jonson.