Word Meanings - CHAPERON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell. 2. A divice placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in
Additional info about word: CHAPERON
1. A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell. 2. A divice placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals. 3. A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector.
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- PLACODERMATA
See PLACODERMI - HOWELL
The upper stage of a porcelian furnace. - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - HEARSECLOTH
A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - THERETO
1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - PLACID
Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay. - THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer. - THEREOUT
1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer. - OFFICIALISM
The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles. - 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. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - PLACIT
A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn. - CHAPERON
1. A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell. 2. A divice placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in - PLACOPHORA
A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura. - THEREUNDER
Under that or this. - UNPLACABLE
Implacable. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - ECHOLESS
Without echo or response. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - INOFFICIALLY
Without the usual forms, or not in the official character. - ETHEREALITY
The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.