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251 words match “TIMER”

TIMER n.
A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.
ANTIMERE n.
One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.
LATIMER n.
An interpreter. [Obs.] Coke.
ABRENOUNCE v.
To renounce. [Obs.] "They abrenounce and cast them off." Latimer.
ABROGATE a.
Abrogated; abolished. [Obs.] Latimer.
ACCUSTOMABLE a.
Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.
ACCUSTOMABLY adv.
According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer.
AFTERCROP n.
A second crop or harvest in the same year. Mortimer.
AGREEABLE a.
y, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town. Latimer.
ALATE adv.
Lately; of late. [Archaic] There hath been alate such tales spread abroad. Latimer.
ALONELY adv.
This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity. Latimer.
ANHELE v.
ssly anxious or eager (for). [Obs.] They anhele . . . for the fruit of our convocation. Latimer.
ASSEMBLE v.
To liken; to compare. [Obs.] Bribes may be assembled to pitch. Latimer.
AVOWRY n.
An advocate; a patron; a patron saint. [Obs.] Let God alone be our avowry. Latimer.
BEAR v.
n. She was . . . found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge. Latimer.
BEE n.
sitic upon bees. -- Bee garden, a garden or inclosure to set beehives in ; an apiary. Mortimer. -- Bee glue, a soft, unctuous matter, with which bees cement the combs to the hives, and close up the cells; -- called also propolis. -- Bee hawk (Zoöl.), the honey buzzard. -- Bee killer (Zoöl.), a large two-winged fly…
BENEATH adv.
In a lower place; underneath. The earth you take from beneath will be barren. Mortimer.
BIND v.
to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat. Mortimer.
BLANCHER n.
h he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel. Latimer.
BLATTER v.
rs to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.
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