Word Meanings - BUB - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Strong malt liquor. Prior.
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- SCRATCH COAT
The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up. - SCRATCHBACK
A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons. - POLISHMENT
The act of polishing, or the state of being polished. - SCRATCHING
With the action of scratching. - INDENTMENT
Indenture. - SCRATCH
A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch. Grose. 3. pl. (more info) 1. A break in the surface of a thing - POLISHED
Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse. - INDENTEDLY
With indentations. - INDENTED
Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary. 4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant. (more info) 1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like - INDENTION
See 4 - POLISHABLE
Capable of being polished. - WOUNDY
Excessive. Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange. - SCRATCHWEED
Cleavers. - WOUNDLESS
Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. "Knights whose woundless armor rusts." Spenser. may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. Shak. - INDENT
1. To be cut, notched, or dented. 2. To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag. 3. To contract; to bargain or covenant. Shak. To indent and drive bargains with the Almighty. South. - POLISHEDNESS
The quality of being polished. - SCRATCHER
One who, or that which, scratches; specifically , any rasorial bird. - LUBRICATE
1. To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young. 2. To apply a lubricant - WOUNDILY
In a woundy manner; excessively; woundy. - WOUNDABLE
Capable of being wounded; vulnerable. Fuller. - BESCRATCH
To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches. - PRORECTORATE
The office of prorector. - DOCTORATE
The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor. - DECORATE
To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero - REINVIGORATE
To invigorate anew. - VAPORATE
To emit vapor; to evaporate. - HYDROCHLORATE
See HYDROCHLORIDE - MELIORATER
See MELIORATOR - BICORPORATE
Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies. - REPOLISH
To polish again. - PERORATE
To make a peroration; to harangue. - TRICORPORAL; TRICORPORATE
Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion. - ELECTORATE
1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate - EDULCORATE
To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify. (more info) 1. To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity. Succory . . . edulcorated with sugar and vinegar. Evelyn. - CORPORATE
1. Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. 2. Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body. "Corporate property." - COLORATE
Colored. Ray.