Word Meanings - CURTAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion. (more info) curtine, F. courtine, LL. cortina, curtian , also, small court, small inclosure surrounded by walls, from cortis

Additional info about word: CURTAIN

That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion. (more info) curtine, F. courtine, LL. cortina, curtian , also, small court, small inclosure surrounded by walls, from cortis court. 1. A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CURTAIN)

• Screen Shelter
• protect
• defend
• hide
• palliate
• mitigate
• curtain
• cloak
• harbor
• fence
• ward
• shade

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CURTAIN)

• Eject
• expel
• discard
• discourage
• stifle
• exclude
• banish
• dismiss

Related words: (words related to CURTAIN)

• FENCE MONTH
  the month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited. Bullokar. -- Fence roof, a covering for defense. "They fitted their shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland. Fence time, the breeding time of fish or
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• FENCER
  One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil. As blunt as the fencer's foils. Shak.
• EJECTMENT
  A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. (more info) 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of
• SHADELESS
  Being without shade; not shaded.
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• SHADEFUL
  Full of shade; shady.
• HARBOR MASTER
  An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• PROTECTORIAL
  See PROTECTORAL
• PROTECTORLESS
  Having no protector; unprotected.
• FENCEFUL
  Affording defense; defensive. Congreve.
• PALLIATE
  1. Covered with a mant Bp. Hall. 2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. Bp. Fell.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• DEFENCE
  See DEFENSE
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• UNHARBOR
  To drive from harbor or shelter.
• OVERSHADE
  To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.