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Affeer
verb · 78% connection
To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Amercement
noun · 78% connection
The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Amerciament
noun · 78% connection
Same as Amercement.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Backwardation
noun · 78% connection
the market condition wherein the price of a forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Blackmail
noun · 78% connection
Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Blood
noun · 78% connection
The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Bloodless
adjective · 78% connection
Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Bloodshed
noun · 78% connection
The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Bloody
adjective · 78% connection
Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Bois durci
unknown · 78% connection
A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Cost
verb · 78% connection
The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Credit
verb · 78% connection
To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Distrain
verb · 78% connection
To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Drawback
noun · 78% connection
Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitt…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Gantlet
noun · 78% connection
A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck hi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Haematoblast
noun · 78% connection
One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Hemoglobin
noun · 78% connection
The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
Hire
noun · 78% connection
The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fine, amercement, paid, composition, shedding.
