Word Meanings - QUARTERSTAFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end.

• Placating
  of Placate
• Placentary
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• Staffmen
  of Staffman
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• MIDDLEAGED
  Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Holder-forth
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher.
• Otherguise
  Alt. of Otherguess
• Placation
  The act of placating.
• Placentation
  The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.
• Placket
  A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.
• Staffman
  A workman employed in silk throwing.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• MIDDLEEARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. [Obs.] Shak.
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Holdfast
  Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.
• Otherguess
  Of another kind or sort; in another way.
• Placentiferous
  Having or producing a placenta.

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