Word Meanings - SCORBUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Scurry. Purchas.

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• PURCHASABLE
  Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt. Money being the counterbalance to all things purchasable by it, as much as you take off from the value of money, so much you add to the price of
• PURCHASE
  purchacier, to pursue, to seek eagerly, F. pourchasser; OF. pour, 1. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. Chaucer. That loves the thing he can not purchase. Spenser. Your accent is Something finer than you could
• PURCHASER
  One who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by descent or inheritance. (more info) 1. One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of
• SCURRY
  To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.
• YEAR'S PURCHASE
  The amount that is yielded by the annual income of property; -- used in expressing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in reckoning the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.
• HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
  A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay
• REPURCHASE
  To buy back or again; to regain by purchase. Sir M. Hale.
• SUBPURCHASER
  A purchaser who buys from a purchaser; one who buys at second hand.