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Word Meanings - UNFATHERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having no father; fatherless; hence, born contrary to nature. Shak. 2. Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • BASTARDLY
    Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. -- adv.
  • FATHER-LASHER
    A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • ACKNOWLEDGE
    1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
  • BASTARD
    F. b, a packsaddle used as a bed by the muleteers + -ard. OF. fils de bast son of the packsaddle; as the muleteers were accustomed to use their saddles for beds in the inns. See Cervantes, 1. A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • CONTRARY
    Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. Contrary motion , the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. Syn. -- Adverse; repugnant; hostile; inimical;
  • FATHERLESSNESS
    The state of being without a father.
  • BASTARDY
    1. The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy. 2. The procreation of a bastard child. Wharton.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • ACKNOWLEDGER
    One who acknowledges.
  • FATHERLAND
    One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • FATHER
    OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pa protect. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad
  • FATHER-IN-LAW
    The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law. Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
  • ILLEGITIMATELY
    In a illegitimate manner; unlawfully.
  • HEREHENCE
    From hence.
  • WHENCEFORTH
    From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • UNNATURE
    To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • DEMINATURED
    Having half the nature of another. Shak.
  • THENCEFROM
    From that place.
  • TIME SIGNATURE
    A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • ORNATURE
    Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.

 

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