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1. One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business. Beau. & Fl. 2. One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor. To sign deputations for undertakes to furnish their proportions of saltpeter. Evelyn.

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1. One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business. Beau. & Fl. 2. One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor. To sign deputations for undertakes to furnish their proportions of saltpeter. Evelyn. In come some other undertakes, and promise us the same or greater wonders. South. 3. Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals.

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  • PROJECTION
    The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
  • FURNISHMENT
    The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
  • 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
  • PROJECTMENT
    Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
  • SALTPETER; SALTPETRE
    Potassium nitrate; niter, a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the
  • PROJECTURE
    A jutting out beyond a surface.
  • BUSINESSLIKE
    In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
  • PROJECTOR
    One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. L'Estrange.
  • FURNISH
    Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
  • PROJECTILE
    1. Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force. 2. Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion. Arbuthnot.
  • FURNISHER
    One who supplies or fits out.
  • PROJECT
    of projicere to project; pro forward + jacere to throw. See Jet a 1. The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth. Holland. 2. That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan. Vented much
  • CONTRACTOR
    One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.
  • THEIR
    The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
  • SUBCONTRACTOR
    One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
  • DISFURNISH
    To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
  • REFURNISHMENT
    The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace.
  • UNFURNISH
    To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip.
  • UNDERFURNISH
    To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.
  • COMPRESSION PROJECTILE
    A projectile constructed so as to take the grooves of a rifle by means of a soft copper band firmly attached near its base or, formerly, by means of an envelope of soft metal. In small arms the modern projectile, having a soft core and
  • REFURNISH
    To furnish again.

 

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