Word Meanings - SHORT-DATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
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- DATIVE
Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective. In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office. Removable, as distinguished from - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - SHORT-WITED
Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - SHORT CIRCUIT
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. - LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness. - SHORT-HANDED
Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers. - SHORTHEAD
A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - SHORTCAKE
An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - SHORTLY
1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in - DATISCIN
A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp - DATURINE
Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina. - SHORT-JOINTED
Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - SHORT-DATED
Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys. - HAVANA
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. - HAVERSIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. - COMMENDATOR
One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers. - DILUCIDATION
The act of making clear. Boyle. - GRAVIDATION
Gravidity. - PEDATE
Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf. -- Ped"ate*ly, adv. - CORDATELY
In a cordate form. - PEDATA
An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill. - CANDIDATING
The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement. - EXHEREDATION
A disinheriting; disherisor. - FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - RETROGRADATION
1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. 2. The state of being retrograde; decline. - SEDATE
Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth. - INFEUDATION
The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee. Sir M. Hale. 2. The granting of tithes to laymen. Blackstone. - UNLIQUIDATED
Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill. - CAUDATA
See URODELA - CONSOLIDATED
Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787) - ELUCIDATORY
Tending to elucidate; elucidative.