Word Meanings - CARVEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall. The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson. A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.
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- BROWNBACK
The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher. - SCREENINGS
The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc. - CEDARN
Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood. - CARVOL
One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol. - DOORSTEAD
Entrance or place of a door. Bp. Warburton. - DOORSTEP
The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door. - DOORSTONE
The stone forming a threshold. - ORNAMENTAL
Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne. - BEECHEN
Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. "Plain beechen vessels." Dryden. - DOORSILL
The sill or threshold of a door. - CARVE
1. To cut. Or they will carven the shepherd's throat. Spenser. 2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. Carved with figures strange and sweet. Coleridge. 3. To make or shape by - BROWNIE
An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. - DOORSTOP
The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door. - BROWNNESS
The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton. - BROWNWORT
A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers. - WROUGHT
imp. & p. p. of Work. Alas that I was wrought ! Chaucer. - BROWNY
Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak. - CARVEN
Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall. The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson. A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning. - IVORYTYPE
A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype. Knight. - BROWNIAN
Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water - HIGH-WROUGHT
1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak. - OUTDOORS
Abread; out of the house; out of doors. - ADOOR; ADOORS
At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak. I took him in adoors. Vicar's Virgil . - BESCREEN
To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal. Shak. - IMBROWN
To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.