Word Meanings - DOUBLETHREADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
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- PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - PITCHERFUL
The quantity a pitcher will hold. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - USHERDOM
The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively. - USTULATE
Blackened as if burned. - PITCHINESS
Blackness, as of pitch; darkness. - PITCHFORK
A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - EQUALIZER
One who, or that which, equalizes anything. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - USURY
1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii. - USURPANT
Usurping; encroaching. Gauden. - CONSISTORIAN
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. - ADJACENTLY
So as to be adjacent. - PITCHWORK
The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product. - EQUALIZE
1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely - USQUEBAUGH
of life; uisge water + beatha life; akin to Gr. bi`os life. See 1. A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott. 2. A liquor - USURIOUS
1. Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person. 2. Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract. -- U*su"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- U*su"ri*ous*ness, n. - MENISCUS
A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent. - ANGUINEOUS
Snakelike. - PROTOGYNOUS
See PROTEROGYNOUS - MALACOSTOMOUS
Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes. - BUSH
The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See - TROUSSEAU
The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family. - PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut. - PALACIOUS
Palatial. Graunt. - PROVENTRIULUS
The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop. - RIPARIOUS
Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian. - POLYPHYLLOUS
Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth. - STEATOPYGOUS
Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton. - DESMOGNATHOUS
Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds. - HORRISONOUS
Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey. - CARNIVOROUS
Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics. - ANTIBILLOUS
Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness. - RUSHED
Abounding or covered with rushes. - BICUSPID
One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n. - BARBAROUS
slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous