Word Meanings - CREDITMOBILIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.

• Generalship
  The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.
• After-image
  The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
• Jointweed
  A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
• After-wit
  Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
• Observation
  The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.
• Bankside
  The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.
• Personalizing
  of Personalize
• Public-spirited
  Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men.
• Stockjobber
  One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.
• Formless
  Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.
• AFTERNOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• Formulizing
  of Formulize
• PUBLICHEARTED
  Public-spirited. [R.]
• Generalty
  Generality.
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• Jointworm
  The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop.
• After-witted
  Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
• Observational
  Of a pertaining to observation; consisting of, or containing, observations.

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