Word Meanings - EXPLANATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.

• Clear-sightedness
  Acute discernment.
• Contraction
  The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
• Interpreted
  of Interpret
• Make-believe
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
• Scripture
  Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.
• MAKINGIRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• Clearstarched
  of Clearstarch
• Contractive
  Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.
• Interpreting
  of Interpret
• Clearstraching
  of Clearstarch
• Contractor
  One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.
• Interpret
  To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebr
• Make-game
  An object of ridicule; a butt.
• CLEARCOLE
  A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
• Clearstarch
  To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
• Contracture
  A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.

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