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94 words match “NAVE”

PICARESQUE a.
f literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
PRACTIC a.
Artful; deceitful; skillful. [Obs.] "Cunning sleights and practick knavery." Spenser.
PRATE v.
; to chatter, or babble. What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate ! Dryden.
PRICE n.
Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry. 'T is the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil. Pope. Price current, or Price list, a statement or list of the prevailing prices of merchandise, stocks, specie, bills of exchange, etc., published statedly or occasionally.
PUT v.
-- To put trust in, to confide in; to repose confidence in. -- To put up. (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities. [Obs.] "Such national injuries are not to be put up." Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from…
QUATORZE n.
The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points.
ROGUE n.
A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat. The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. Pope.
ROOD n.
the rood was placed. Fairholt. -- Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it was called also rood steeple. Weale. -- Rood tree, the cross. [Obs.] "Died upon the rood tree." Gower.
SANCTUS n.
hese words. Sanctus bell, a small bell usually suspended in a bell cot at the apex of the nave roof, over the chancel arch, in mediæval churches, but a hand bell is now often used; -- so called because rung at the singing of the sanctus, at the conclusion of the ordinary of the Mass, and again at the elevation of the h…
SHYSTER n.
A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way. [Slang, U.S.]
SINISTROUS a.
Wrong; absurd; perverse. A knave or fool can do no harm, even by the most sinistrous and absurd choice. Bentley.
SKAINSMATE n.
A messmate; a companion. [Obs.] Scurvy knave! I am none of his firt-gills; I am none of his skainsmates. Shak.
SLEEVE n.
A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel.
SPEAK v.
set, as the tradesmen speak. Boyle. An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. Shak. During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history. Macaulay.
SPHERICAL; SPHERIC a.
sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set. Knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance. Shak. Though the stars were suns, and overburned Their spheric limitations. Mrs. Browning. Spherical angle, Spherical coördinate, Spherical excess, etc. See under Angle, Coo…
SPOKE n.
The radius or ray of a wheel; one of the small bars which are inserted in the hub, or nave, and which serve to support the rim or felly.
STATION n.
entations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross. Fairholt. Station bill. (Na…
SURADANNI n.
ained on the shores of the Demerara River in South America, much used for timbers, rails, naves and fellies of wheels, and the like.
TIDE n.
A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood. "Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide." Shak.
TOM n.
The knave of trumps at gleek. [Obs.]
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