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Word Meanings - THIRDINGS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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  • GROWLER
    The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls.
  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • GROWL
    To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.
  • GRAINED
    Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
  • DEATHLY
    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
  • GROUNDWORK
    That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
  • GROUNDEN
    p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
  • DEATHLINESS
    The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
  • GROUNDNUT
    The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
  • TENANT
    One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title
  • THIRDLY
    In the third place. Bacon.
  • DEATHWATCH
    A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
  • GROUNDLESS
    Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
  • HERIOT
    Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease
  • GROWAN
    A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
  • GRAINING
    The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. (more info) 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting
  • GROWER
    One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.
  • GROW
    1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs. 2. To increase in any way; to become larger and
  • GRAINY
    Resembling grains; granular.
  • DEATHWARD
    Toward death.
  • MISGROUND
    To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
  • TER-TENANT
    See TERRE-TENANT
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • UPGROW
    To grow up. Milton.
  • PLAYGROUND
    A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
  • INGRAIN
    1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
  • CROSSGRAINED
    1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
  • FULL-GROWN
    Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.
  • MISGROWTH
    Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
  • MIGRAINE
    See A
  • FELT GRAIN
    , the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.
  • FOREGROUND
    On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.

 

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