Word Meanings - BROWDYNG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Embroidery. Of goldsmithrye, of browdying, and of steel. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to BROWDYNG)

• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• STEELHEAD
  A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
• STEELINESS
  The quality of being steely.
• STEELY
  1. Made of steel; consisting of steel. "The steely point of Clifford's lance." Shak. Around his shop the steely sparkles flew. Gay. 2. Resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel. "His hair was steely gray." The Century. She would unarm
• EMBROIDERY
  1. Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering. 2. Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere
• STEELYARD
  A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm indicating
• BROWDYNG
  Embroidery. Of goldsmithrye, of browdying, and of steel. Chaucer.
• STEELER
  One who points, edges, or covers with steel.
• STEEL
  A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel,
• STEELBOW GOODS
  Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.
• CARBON STEEL
  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• UNSTEEL
  To disarm; to soften. Richardson.
• LOW STEEL
  See LOW
• NICKEL STEEL
  A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• BESSEMER STEEL
  Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English
• DAMASCUS STEEL
  See DAMASK
• SOFT STEEL
  Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron.
• NATIVE STEEL
  A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
• SEMISTEEL
  Puddled steel.
• INGOT STEEL
  Steel cast in ingots from the Bessemer converter or open-hearth furnace.
• WELD STEEL
  A compound of iron, such as puddled steel, made without complete fusion.
• INDIA STEEL
  See WOOTZ