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.