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57 words match “PROFESSIONAL”

DRAPE v.
h, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc. The whole people were draped professionally. De Quincey. These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere. Bungay.
EXERCENT a.
Practicing; professional. [Obs.] "Every exercent advocate." Ayliffe.
FEE n.
Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc. To plead for love deserves…
FOOL n.
One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments. Can they think me . . . their fool or jester Milton. April fool, Court fool, etc. See under April, Court, etc. -- Fool's cap, a cap or hood to which bell…
GOWN n.
The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military. He Mars deposed, and arms to gowns made yield. Dryden.
GOWNSMAN; GOWNMAN n.
One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.
GRADUATE n.
One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.
HANKEY-PANKEY n.
Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery. [Colloq.]
HOBO n.
A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [U. S.] -- Ho"bo*ism (#), n.
HONORARIUM; HONORARY n.
A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars. S. Longfellow.
HORSE-JOCKEY n.
A professional rider and trainer of race horses.
INCOME n.
ty, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as…
JERRY-BUILDER n.
A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction.
JOCKEY n.
A professional rider of horses in races. Addison.
JOURNALIST n.
ic journal, or one whose business it to write for a public journal; an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical. Addison.
KEENER n.
A professional mourner who wails at a funeral. [Ireland]
LAY a.
Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease. Lay baptism (Eccl.), baptism administered by a lay person. F. G. Lee. -- Lay brother (R. C. Ch.), one received into a convent of monks under the three vows, but not in holy orders. -- Lay…
MODEL n.
A person who poses as a pattern to an artist. A professional model. H. James. Working model, a model of a machine which can do on a small scale the work which the machine itself does, or expected to do.
MOTLEY n.
A combination of distinct colors; esp., the party-colored cloth, or clothing, worn by the professional fool. Chaucer. "Motley 's the only wear." Shak.
NAUTCH n.
An entertainment consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing (or Nautch) girls. [India]
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