Word Meanings - PROHIBIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.

• DORMY
  Up, or ahead, as many holes as remain to be played; -- said of a player or side. A player who is dormy can not be beaten, and at the worst must halve the match. Encyc. of Sport.
• Thiophenol
  A colorless mobile liquid, C6H5.SH, of an offensive odor, and analogous to phenol; -- called also phenyl sulphydrate.
• Dog-rose
  A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.
• Dowse
  To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.
• THOUSANDLEGS
  A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm.
• Thrast
  of Thraste
• Dominie
  A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
• Thallogen
  One of a large class or division of the vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless plants, such as fungi, algae, and lichens, that consist of a thallus only, composed of cellular tissue, or of a congeries of cells, or even of separate cell
• Through
  From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece of timber, or through a board; a ball passes through the side of a ship.
• Dorture
  A dormitory.
• Theodolitic
  Of or pertaining to a theodolite; made by means of a theodolite; as, theodolitic observations.
• Thermotension
  A process of increasing the strength of wrought iron by heating it to a determinate temperature, and giving to it, while in that state, a mechanical strain or tension in the direction in which the strength is afterward to be exerted.
• Docquet
  See Docket.
• Doubtful
  Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure.
• DOUBLEBEATVALVE
  See under Valve.
• Thirsted
  of Thirst
• Dogwatch
  A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m.
• Dozen
  of Dozen
• THREEPOINTED
  Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
• Threaped
  of Threap

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