Word Meanings - DAUBER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber. 3. A low and gross flattere. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

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• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• INKSTONE
  A kind of stone containing native vitriol or subphate of iron, used in making ink.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• INK
  The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.
• COARSELY
  In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
• 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.
• PAINTER
  A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. (more info) panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin,
• CANVASSER
  One who canvasses.
• UNSKILLFUL
  1. Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician. 2. Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant. Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve. Shak. --
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• PAINTERSHIP
  The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• COVERER
  One who, or that which, covers.
• CANVASS
  1. To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote. I have made careful search on all hands, and canvassed the matter with
• 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.
• INKING
  Supplying or covering with ink. Inking roller, a somewhat elastic roller,used to spread ink over forms of type, copperplates, etc. -- Inking trough or table, a trough or table from which the inking roller receives its ink.
• INKFISH
  A cuttlefish. See Cuttlefish.
• COVERCHIEF
  A covering for the head. Chaucer.
• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• JINK
  1. To move quickly, esp. with a sudden turn; hence, to dodge; to escape by a quick turn; --obs. or dial., except as a hunting term in pig-sticking. 2. In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also,
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• TINKER
  A small mortar on the end of a staff. A young mackerel about two years old. The chub mackerel. The silversides. A skate. (more info) his trade is to beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a 1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other
• BLINK-EYED
  Habitually winking. Marlowe.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• TRINKETER
  One who trinkets.
• MISTHINK
  To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.
• ENLINK
  To chain together; to connect, as by links. Shak.
• STINKWEED
  Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• WRINKLY
  Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered. G. Eliot. His old wrinkly face grew quite blown out at last. Carlyle.
• STEINKIRK
  See STEENKIRK
• ZINK
  See ZINC
• WINKLE
  Any periwinkle. Holland. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica). Note: These are large mollusks which often destroy large numbers of oysters
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching