Word Meanings - DURHAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One or a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of Durham, England. The Durham cattle are noted for their beef-producing quality.

• Breviature
  An abbreviature; an abbreviation.
• Notornis
  A genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is
• Breadthless
  Without breadth.
• Brewhouse
  A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.
• Originate
  To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.
• Breakneck
  A fall that breaks the neck.
• Hornbook
  The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the
• Production
  The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.
• Breasthook
  A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side.
• Hornowl
  See Horned Owl.
• Short-dated
  Having little time to run from the date.
• Breathe
  To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.
• Notability
  Quality of being notable.
• Short-waisted
  Having a short waist.
• Breeches
  A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
• Notching
  of Notch
• BREECHPINBREECHSCREW
  A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.
• Bregmatic
  Pertaining to the bregma.
• Nothingarian
  One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.
• PRODUCERSGOODS
  Goods that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting. from con

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