Word Meanings - CHAFFWAX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

• Otherguess
  Of another kind or sort; in another way.
• SEALAMPREY
  The common lamprey.
• SEALOUSE
  Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of Cymothoa, Livoneca, and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes.
• Otherness
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• SEALANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• SEALSKIN
  The skin of a seal; the pelt of a seal prepared for use, esp. of the fur seal; also, a garment made of this material.
• Chancery
  In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exerc
• Otherways
  See Otherwise.
• SEALAVENDER
  See Marsh rosemary, under Marsh.
• Otherwhere
  In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere.
• SEALAWYER
  The gray snapper. See under Snapper.
• Fitting
  of Fit
• Otherwhile
  Alt. of Otherwhiles
• SEALBROWN
  Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed.
• Otherwhiles
  At another time, or other times; sometimes; /ccasionally.
• SEALEGS
  Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea. [Sailor's Cant] Totten.
• Fittable
  Suitable; fit.
• Otherwise
  In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily.

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