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Word Meanings - WAYMAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes a way; a precursor. Bacon.

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  • BACON
    The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
  • BACONIAN
    Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
  • MAKESHIFT
    That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
  • PRECURSORY
    Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.
  • PRECURSORSHIP
    The position or condition of a precursor. Ruskin.
  • PRECURSOR
    One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger. Evil thoughts are the invisible, airy precursors of all the storms and tempests of the soul. Buckminster. Syn. -- Predecessor; forerunner; harbinger;

 

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