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Word Meanings - CULLS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out. 2. Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked.

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  • CULLIBLE
    Easily deceived; gullible.
  • BAKING
    1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. 2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little
  • TIMBERMAN
    A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.
  • TIMBER
    A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, (more info) Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL.
  • CULLET
    Broken glass for remelting.
  • BAKEMEAT; BAKED-MEAT
    A pie; baked food. Gen. xl. 17. Shak.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • STUFFING
    Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. 3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint
  • PROPERLY
    1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • CULLION
    A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion. "Away, base cullions." Shak. (more info) fellow, coward, dupe, from OF. couillon, coillon, testicle, fr. il
  • CULLIBILITY
    Gullibility. Swift.
  • CULLING
    Anything separated or selected from a mass. (more info) 1. The act of one who culls. 2. pl.
  • BAKISTRE
    A baker. Chaucer.
  • BAKERY
    1. The trade of a baker. 2. The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.
  • CULLIONLY
    Mean; base. Shak.
  • STUFFINESS
    The quality of being stuffy.
  • CULLS
    1. Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out. 2. Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked.
  • TIMBERHEAD
    The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.
  • TIMBERLING
    A small tree.
  • LUCULLITE
    A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes.
  • IMPROPERLY
    In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
  • SCULLION
    A scalion.
  • CUCULLATE; CUCULLATED
    Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet. Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects. Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain
  • PORTCULLIS
    A grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung over the gateway of a fortress, to be let down to prevent the entrance of an enemy. "Let the portcullis fall." Sir W. Scott. She . . . the huge portcullis high updrew. Milton. 2. An English
  • SCULLERY
    for washing dishes, and for swillery, fr. OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian , but influenced either by Icel. skola, skyla, Dan. skylle, or by OF. escuelier a place for keeping dishes, fr. escuele a dish, F. écuelle, fr. L. scutella a salver, waiter
  • HARDBAKE
    A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. Thackeray.
  • CLEAN-TIMBERED
    Well-propotioned; symmetrical. Shak.
  • BREADSTUFF
    Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.

 

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