Word Meanings - SEVENTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others. On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Gen. ii. 2. 2. Constituting or being one of seven equal
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1. Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others. On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Gen. ii. 2. 2. Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the seventh part. Seventh day, the seventh day of the week; Saturday. -- Seventh-day Baptists. See under Baptist.
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- BELLMAN
A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton. - COMBER
1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave. - COMMENDATOR
One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers. - BESCRATCH
To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches. - BELIAL
An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. What concord hath Christ with Belia 2 Cor. vi. 15. A son of Belial, a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person. 1 Sam. ii. 12. - COMPATIENT
Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck. - COMMISSARY
An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer - BEASTLIHEAD
Beastliness. Spenser. - BEWRAP
To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax. - BERGOMASK
A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness. - COMMERCIALLY
In a commercial manner. - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - BEVELMENT
The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes. - BELEAVE
To leave or to be left. May. - BESCORN
To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer. - BETSO
A small brass Venetian coin. - COMPOSITOUS
Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin. - ENDENIZATION
The act of naturalizing. - BETOKEN
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen - BELLADONNA
An herbaceous European plant with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due - GABBER
1. A liar; a deceiver. 2. One addicted to idle talk. - AMENDFUL
Much improving. - HAIRBELL
See HAREBELL - ORBED
Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench. - OFFENDANT
An offender. Holland. - GERBE
A kind of ornamental firework. Farrow. - LAMBERT PINE
The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - INDECOMPOSABLENESS
Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability. - GABELER
A collector of gabels or taxes.