Word Meanings - TRAPPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level. Raymond. (more info) 1. One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs. W. Irving.

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• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• LEVELER
  1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
• LEVEL
  libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is
• TRAPPIST
  A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rancé in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United
• TRAPPER
  A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level. Raymond. (more info) 1. One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs. W. Irving.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• TRAPSTICK
  A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg. Addison.
• TRAPPEAN
  Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap.
• GALLERY
  A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern galery or quarter gallry, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850. (more info) galeria gallery, perh. orig., a festal hall, banquetting hall; cf.
• LEVELISM
  The disposition or endeavor to level all distinctions of rank in society.
• LEVELLY
  In an even or level manner.
• TRAPPY
  See TRAPPOUS
• TRAPPINGS
  1. That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations. Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. Dryden. These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Shak. 2. Specifically, ornaments to be put on horses. Caparisons and
• IRVINGITE
  The common designation of one a sect founded by the Rev. Edward Irving , who call themselves the Catholic Apostolic Church. They are highly ritualistic in worship, have an elaborate hierarchy of apostles, prophets, etc., and look for the speedy
• LEVELNESS
  The state or quality of being level.
• TRAPDOOR
  A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.
• TRAPPURES
  Trappings for a horse. Chaucer.
• LEVELING
  The art or operation of using a leveling instrument for finding a horizontal line, for ascertaining the differences of level between different points of the earth's surface included in a survey, for establishing grades, etc., as in finding
• TRAPPOUS
  Of or performance to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities; trappy.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• NIRVANA
  In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
• WATER LEVEL
  1. The level formed by the surface of still water. 2. A kind of leveling instrument. See under Level, n.
• PROPENSION
  The quality or state of being propense; propensity. M. Arnold. Your full consent Gave wings to my propension. Shak.
• SIRVENTE
  A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages. (more info) originally, the poem of, or concerning, a sirvent, fr. sirvent,
• STRAPPLE
  To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. Chapman.
• CLAIRVOYANCE
  A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.
• PROPENSITY
  The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency. "A propensity to utter blasphemy." Macaulay. Syn. -- Disposition; bias; inclination; proclivity; proneness; bent; tendency.
• AIR LEVEL
  Spirit level. See Level.