Word Meanings - CHIMNEY-PIECE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.

Related words: (words related to CHIMNEY-PIECE)

• AROUND
  1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took
• DECORATIVE
  Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning. -- Dec"o*ra*tive*ness, n. Decorative art, fine art which has for its end ornamentation, rather than the representation of objects or events.
• CONSTRUCTION
  The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement. Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them. Locke. 4. The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a
• CONSTRUCTIONIST
  One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.
• CONSTRUCTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.
• FIREPLACE
  The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.
• CHOPNESS
  A kind of spade.
• THEOPNEUSTIC
  Given by the inspiration of the Spirit of God.
• THEOPNEUSTY
  Divine inspiration; the supernatural influence of the Divine Spirit in qualifying men to receive and communicate revealed truth.
• THEOPNEUSTED
  Divinely inspired; theopneustic.
• MISCONSTRUCTION
  Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. Bp. Stillingfleet.
• PHARYNGOPNEUSTA
  A group of invertebrates including the Tunicata and Enteropneusta. -- Pha*ryn`gop*neus"tal, a.
• ORTHOPNOEA; ORTHOPNY
  Specifically, a morbid condition in which respiration can be performed only in an erect posture; by extension, any difficulty of breathing.
• HYDROPNEUMATIC
  Pertaining to, or depending upon, both liquid and gaseous substances; as, hydropneumatic apparatus for collecting gases over water or other liquids.
• PYOPNEUMOTHORAX
  Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity.
• HYDROPNEUMATIC GUN CARRIAGE
  A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid and air, the air when compressed furnishing the power for restoring the gun to the firing position. It is used with some English and European heavy guns.
• PLEUROPNEUMONIA
  Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.
• ENTEROPNEUSTA
  A group of wormlike invertebrates having, along the sides of the body, branchial openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by diverticula of the alimentary canal. Balanoglossus is the only known genus. See Illustration in Appendix.
• RECONSTRUCTION
  The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reëstablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War. (more info) 1. The act
• RUN-AROUND
  A whitlow running around the finger nail, but not affecting the bone.