Word Meanings - HATCHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement.

• Shapen
  of Shape
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Temporarily
  In a temporary manner; for a time.
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Widow-wail
  A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe.
• Deathly
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• WALLSTREET
  A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center of the
• Dweller
  An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller.
• Notification
  The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.
• Personalities
  of Personality
• Personifying
  of Personify
• Shaping
  of Shape
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Whether
  Which (of two); which one (of two); -- used interrogatively and relatively.
• Callot
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte.
• CALLIGRAPHICCALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• Death's-head
  A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.

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