Word Meanings - APRON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

nape, F. nappe, cloth, tablecloth, LL. napa, fr. L. mappa, napkin, 1. An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly

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nape, F. nappe, cloth, tablecloth, LL. napa, fr. L. mappa, napkin, 1. An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings. 2. Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron; as, The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck. Halliwell. A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot. "The weather being too hot for the apron." Hughes. A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon. A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel. Totten. A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut. A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent. The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer. A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing. The infolded abdomen of a crab.

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• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• ARTICLE
  1. To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars. If all his errors and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable. Jer. Taylor. 2. To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles. He shall be
• CLEANING
  1. The act of making clean. 2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• CLEANLINESS
  State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.
• LEATHERWOOD
  A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.
• NAPPE
  Sheet; surface; all that portion of a surface that is continuous in such a way that it is possible to pass from any one point of the portion to any other point of the portion without leaving the surface. Thus, some hyperboloids have one nappe, and
• CLEANLY
  1. Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith. 2. Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. "With cleanly powder dry their
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• LEATHERBACK
  A large sea turtle , having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• LEATHERY
  Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.
• STUFFING
  Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. 3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram