Word Meanings - COTTONARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.
Related words: (words related to COTTONARY)
- COMPOSITOUS
Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - COTTONY
1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton. - COMPOSURE
1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles. - COMPOSSIBLE
Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - COTTONADE
A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton. - RELATIVELY
In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts. - COMPOSITE
Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital. - RELATE
1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy - RELATIVITY
The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge. - COMPOSTURE
Manure; compost. Shak. - COTTON BATTING
Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes. - RELATRIX
A female relator. - COMPOST
1. To manure with compost. 2. To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost. - COMPOSITAE
A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples. - COTTONWOOD
An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States. - COTTONARY
Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne. - RELATIONAL
1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris. - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - INDECOMPOSABLENESS
Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability. - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. - IRRELATIVE
Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence - DECOMPOSITION
1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of - CORRELATIVENESS
Quality of being correlative. - IRRELATION
The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation. - PRELATEITY
Prelacy. Milton.