Word Meanings - CERECLOTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter. Linen, besmeared with gums, in manner of cerecloth. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BESMEAR
  To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• SMEAR DAB
  The sand fluke .
• SMEARED
  Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth .
• BESMEARER
  One that besmears.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• LINENER
  A dealer in linen; a linen draper.
• GLUTINOUSNESS
  The quality of being glutinous.
• SMEARCASE
  Cottage cheese.
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• GLUTINOUS
  Havig a moist and adhesive or sticky surface, as a leaf or gland. (more info) 1. Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; viscous; viscid; adhesive; gluey.
• SMEAR
  akin to D. smeren, OHG. smirwen, G. schmieren, Icel. smyrja to 1. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. "Smear the sleepy grooms with blood." Shak. 2. To soil in any way;
• CLOTHIER
  1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• MATTERLESS
  1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
• CLOTHING
  See CARD (more info) 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing
• CLOTHESPIN
  A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
• MELTABLE
  Capable of being melted.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
• BROADCLOTH
  A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
• SMELT
  of Smell.
• SMELTERY
  A house or place for smelting.
• UNCLOTHED
  Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• SADDLECLOTH
  A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.
• GUNNY; GUNNY CLOTH
  A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage. Gunny bag, a sack made of gunny, used for