Word Meanings - BREASTRAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.

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• RAIL
  An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt.
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• QUARTER ROUND
  An ovolo.
• QUARTERON; QUARTEROON
  A quadroon.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• ORDINARY
  1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. 3. Of common rank, quality,
• QUARTERON
  A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. Piers Plowman.
• BALCONY
  A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.
• QUARTERPACE
  A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace.
• RAILING
  Expressing reproach; insulting. Angels which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them. 2 Pet. ii. 11.
• QUARTERMASTER
  An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
• RAILLEUR
  A banterer; a jester; a mocker. Wycherley.
• RAILER
  One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.
• QUARTERLY
  1. Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons. 2. Recurring during, or at the end of, each quarter; as, quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly meeting.
• QUARTERFOIL
  An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.
• QUARTERED
  1. Divided into four equal parts or quarters; separated into four parts or regions. 2. Furnished with quarters; provided with shelter or entertainment. 3. Quarter-sawed; -- said of timber, commonly oak.
• QUARTERN
  fourth part of a pound, or of a hundred; cf. L. quartarius a fourth part, quarter of any measure, quartern, gill. See Quarter, and cf. 1. A quarter. Specifically: The fourth part of a pint; a gill. The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone .
• RAILROAD; RAILWAY
  1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. Note: The modern railroad is a development
• RAILINGLY
  With scoffing or insulting language.
• PARAPETALOUS
  Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen.
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• FRAIL
  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
• TAFFRAIL
  The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
• FRAILTY
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;
• SUBORDINARY
  One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary. Note: Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar, bend, sinister, pile, inescutcheon bordure, gyron, and quarter, are always
• DRAIL
  To trail; to draggle. South.
• SHIP RAILWAY
  An inclined railway running into the water with a cradelike car on which a vessel may be drawn out on land, as for repairs. A railway on which to transport vessels overland between bodies of water.
• TIRAILLEUR
  Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.
• TRAMRAIL
  An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.
• MITRAILLEUR
  One who serves a mitrailleuse.
• SUPPER
  A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal. Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc. (more info) originally
• ENGRAIL
  To indent with small curves. See Engrailed. (more info) 1. To variegate or spot, as with hail. A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues. Chapman.