Word Meanings - STICKLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who stickles. Specifically: -- One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire. Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey. Sir P. Sidney. Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the

Additional info about word: STICKLER

One who stickles. Specifically: -- One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire. Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey. Sir P. Sidney. Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise. Dryden. One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony. The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II. Swift.

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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,
• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• FENCER
  One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil. As blunt as the fencer's foils. Shak.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• UMPIRESHIP
  Umpirage; arbitrament. Jewel.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• APPOINTMENT
  The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
• JUDGER
  One who judges. Sir K. Digby.
• APPOINTOR
  The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.
• SECONDER
  One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.
• APPOINTIVE
  Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.
• SECONDLY
  In the second place.
• APPOINT
  To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. Crowley. (more info) prepare,
• 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
• UMPIRE
  A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement. Blackstone. Syn. -- Judge; arbitrator; referee. See Judge. (more info) uneven), fr. OF. nomper uneven, F. non-pair; hence
• SECOND-SIGHTED
  Having the power of second-sight. Addison.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• FOREJUDGER
  A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• ABJUDGE
  To take away by judicial decision.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• MISINFORMER
  One who gives or incorrect information.
• REJUDGE
  To judge again; to re Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace. Pope.