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A member of the Washingtonian Society. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. Lowell. 2. Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on

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A member of the Washingtonian Society. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. Lowell. 2. Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence. -- n.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• GEORGE NOBLE
  A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII. See Noble, n.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• STARTISH
  Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• MEMBERSHIP
  1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society.
• SOCIETY
  1. The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company. "Her loved society." Milton. There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar. Byron. 2. Connection; participation;
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• GEORGE
  1. A figure of St. George on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter. 2. A kind of brown loaf. Dryden.
• WASHINGTONIAN
  A member of the Washingtonian Society. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. Lowell. 2. Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on
• START
  sturzen to turn over, to fall, Sw. störa to cast down, to fall, Dan. styrte, and probably also to E. start a tail; the original sense being, perhaps, to show the tail, to tumble over suddenly. *166. Cf. 1. To leap; to jump. 2. To move suddenly,
• STARTINGLY
  By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically. Shak.
• STARTLISH
  Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse.
• MEMBERED
  Having legs of a different tincture from that of the body; -- said of a bird in heraldic representations. (more info) 1. Having limbs; -- chiefly used in composition.
• POLICY
  1. Civil polity. 2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state. 3. The method
• STARTING
  from Start, v. Starting bar , a hand lever for working the values in starting an engine. -- Starting hole, a loophole; evasion. -- Starting point, the point from which motion begins, or from which anything starts. -- Starting post, a post, stake,
• STARTLE
  To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start. Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction Addison. (more info) Etym:
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• IMPOLICY
  The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.
• MISPOLICY
  Wrong policy; impolicy.
• BENEFIT SOCIETY
  A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
• REMEMBER
  re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See 1. To have come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect;
• NONMEMBERSHIP
  State of not being a member.
• REMEMBERABLE
  Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.
• FOREREMEMBERED
  Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.
• REDSTART
  A small, handsome European singing bird , allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native
• DISMEMBER
  1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck
• UNDERLOAD STARTER
  A motor starter provided with an underload switch.