Word Meanings - CONCISION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cutting off; a division; a schism; a faction. South.

Related words: (words related to CONCISION)

• SOUTHWEST
  Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• CUTTING
  1. Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool. 2. Chilling; penetratinn; sharp; as, a cutting wind. 3. Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• SOUTHING
  Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
• SOUTHERN
  A Southerner.
• SOUTHNESS
  A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday.
• SCHISMA
  An interval equal to half a comma.
• SOUTHEASTERN
  Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.
• SOUTHWESTWARD; SOUTHWESTWARDLY
  Toward the southwest.
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• REFACTION
  Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
• COLLIQUEFACTION
  A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
• UNSATISFACTION
  Dissatisfaction. Bp. Hall.
• AREFACTION
  The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale.
• UNDERFACTION
  A subordinate party or faction.