Definition of for

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For (prep.) Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of..

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Barbette :: Barbette (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet..
Pitter :: Pitter (n.) A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit..
Euchology :: Euchology (n.) A formulary of prayers; the book of offices in the Greek Church, containing the liturgy, sacraments, and forms of prayers..
Carry :: Carry (v. t.) To get possession of by force; to capture.
Calorimeter :: Calorimeter (n.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc..
Manger :: Manger (n.) The fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it..
Coticular :: Coticular (a.) Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.
Mobocrat :: Mobocrat (n.) One who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
Hearthstone :: Hearthstone (n.) Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home..
Settle :: Settle (n.) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
Diversify :: Diversify (v. t.) To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
Sheath :: Sheath (n.) A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard..
Snail :: Snail (n.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock..
Fencing :: Fencing (v. i.) The materials used for building fences.
Mandator :: Mandator (n.) The person who employs another to perform a mandate.
Plastography :: Plastography (n.) The art of forming figures in any plastic material.
Grayback :: Grayback (n.) The California gray whale.
Predestinative :: Predestinative (a.) Determining beforehand; predestinating.
Variety :: Variety (n.) An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species..
Caryopsis :: Caryopsis (n.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc..
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