Word Meanings - WHARFING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties. Knight. (more info) 1. Wharfs, collectively.

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• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• FACETIAE
  Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.
• FACIES
  The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment. (more info) 1. The anterior part of the head; the face.
• FACILITATION
  The act of facilitating or making easy.
• FACIEND
  The multiplicand. See Facient,
• FACUND
  Eloquent.
• SECURIFORM
  Having the form of an ax hatchet.
• FACTIOUS
  1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster.
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• FACT
  1. A doing, making, or preparing. A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. B. Jonson. 2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. What might instigate
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• FACINOROUS
  Atrociously wicked. Jer. Taylor. -- Fa*cin"o*rous*ness, n.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• SECURER
  One who, or that which, secures.
• FACTITIVE
  Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine. Sometimes the idea of activity in a
• FACTORIZE
  To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the
• SECURENESS
  The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
• SECURITY
  1. The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Specifically: Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please.
• FACE
  Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac. Chaucer. 9. Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery. This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations.
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• CREAM-FACED
  White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.
• BAREFACEDNESS
  The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• CRABFACED
  Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau & Fl.
• TEMPOROFACIAL
  Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face.
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.
• MULTIFACED
  Having many faces.
• CALEFACTOR
  A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• ABORTIFACIENT
  Producing miscarriage. -- n.
• FIBER-FACED; FIBRE-FACED
  Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
• PALEFACE
  A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians. J. F. Cooper.