Word Meanings - SHORTSTOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.

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• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• FIELD
  The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity
• FIELDING
  The act of playing as a fielder.
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• FIELDY
  Open, like a field. Wyclif.
• STATIONARY
  1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey. 2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
• STATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a station.
• THIRDLY
  In the third place. Bacon.
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• STATIONER
  1. A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere. Dryden. 2. One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.
• SECONDER
  One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.
• SECONDLY
  In the second place.
• STATION
  The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat. (more info) 1. The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture. A station like the herald, Mercury. Shak. Their manner was to stand at
• SECOND-SIGHT
  The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed
• THIRD
  third, G. dritte, Icel. , Goth. , L. tertius, Gr. t. See Three, and 1. Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the thirdhour in the day. "The third night." Chaucer. 2. Constituting or being one of three equal
• FIELDED
  Engaged in the field; encamped. To help fielded friends. Shak.
• PLAYER
  1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester;
• SECOND-SIGHTED
  Having the power of second-sight. Addison.
• THIRDINGS
  The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.
• HOMEFIELD
  Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• TORPEDO STATION
  A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
• INFIELD
  To inclose, as a field.
• INCRUSTATION
  A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement. (more info) 1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted. 2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit
• INTERBASTATION
  Patchwork. Dr. J. Smith.
• CIRCUMGESTATION
  The act or process of carrying about. Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• PROTESTATION
  Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial. (more info) 1.
• CONTESTATION
  1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn