Word Meanings - SUTTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The weight when the tare has been deducted, and tret is yet to be allowed. M

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• DEDUCTIVE
  Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible. All knowledge of causes is deductive. Glanvill. Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process. Whewell.
• DEDUCTIVELY
  By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence. Sir T. Browne.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• WEIGHT
  The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. Atomic weight. See under Atomic, and cf. Element. -- Dead weight, Feather weight, Heavy weight, Light weight, etc. See under Dead, Feather, etc. -- Weight of
• WEIGHTY
  1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.
• ALLOWABLENESS
  The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South.
• DEDUCT
  Etym: 1. To lead forth or out. A people deducted out of the city of Philippos. Udall. 2. To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of. Deduct what is but vanity, or dress.
• ALLOWABLE
  1. Praiseworthy; laudable. Hacket. 2. Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.
• ALLOWANCE
  A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. (more info) 1. Approval; approbation. Crabbe. 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission;
• WEIGHTLESS
  Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light. Shak.
• DEDUCTIBLE
  1. Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn. Not one found honestly deductible From any use that pleased him. Mrs. Browning. 2. Deducible; consequential.
• DEDUCTION
  1. Act or process of deducing or inferring. The deduction of one language from another. Johnson. This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction. J. R. Seely. 2. Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as,
• ALLOWABLY
  In an allowable manner.
• DEDUCTOR
  The pilot whale or blackfish.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• MALLOWWORT
  Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• TALLOW-FACED
  Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
• TALLOWY
  Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.
• UNHALLOWED
  Not consecrated; hence, profane; unholy; impious; wicked. In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence . . . is either necessary or admissible. E. D. Griffin.
• FALLOW
  Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• GALLOW
  To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t. Shak.