Word Meanings - SIDE-TAKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.
Related words: (words related to SIDE-TAKING)
- SIDESADDLE
A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia. - TAKING
1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n. - PARTY
1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided - FACTION
One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, - TAKE
Taken. Chaucer. - TAKE-OFF
An imitation, especially in the way of caricature. - PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak. - PARTYISM
Devotion to party. - FACTIONARY
Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides. Always factionary on the party of your general. Shak. - TAKE-IN
Imposition; fraud. - FACTIONIST
One who promotes faction. - TAKE-UP
That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch. - SIDESMAN
1. A party man; a partisan. Milton. 2. An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman. - PARTY-COATED
Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. Shak. - TAKING-OFF
Removal; murder. See To take off , under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak. - TAKEN
p. p. of Take. - TAKER
One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehended. - FACTIONER
One of a faction. Abp. Bancroft. - UNMISTAKABLE
Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv. - LEAVE-TAKING
Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak. - MISTAKING
An error; a mistake. Shak. - MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon. - CHYLIFACTION
The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process. - MISTAKINGLY
Erroneously. - POURPARTY
A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common. - REFACTION
Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell. - COLLIQUEFACTION
A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon. - OUTTAKE
Except. R. of Brunne. - STAKTOMETER
A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster. - UNSATISFACTION
Dissatisfaction. Bp. Hall. - AREFACTION
The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale. - SIDE-TAKING
A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall. - UNDERFACTION
A subordinate party or faction.