Word Meanings - MINUTE-JACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.

• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Housebreaker
  One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.
• Houseroom
  Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Housebreaking
  The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break.
• Housewarming
  A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• Housebuilder
  One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.
• Housewife
  The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
• Calling
  of Call
• Callipash
  See Calipash.
• Housecarl
  A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.
• Housewive
  To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize.
• Callipee
  See Calipee.

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