Word Meanings - PIECEWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed.

• BASSETHOUND
  A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog.
• Basilicon
  An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.
• Basking
  of Bask
• Bassaw
  See Bashaw.
• Bassorin
  A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses.
• Bastile Bastille
  A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.
• Employee
  One employed by another.
• BASEDOWSDISEASE
  A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter. Flint.
• Basify
  To convert into a salifiable base.
• Basigynium
  The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
• BASSHORN
  A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone.
• Basilisk
  A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.
• Bass drum
  The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.
• Bass-relief
  Some as Bas-relief.
• Bastinade
  See Bastinado, n.
• Employer
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.

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