Word Meanings - EBURIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc. Knight.
Related words: (words related to EBURIN)
- KNIGHTLESS
Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - VALUABLENESS
The quality of being valuable. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - KNIGHT BANNERET
A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field - KNIGHT BACHELOR
A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4. - MAKE
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer. - CEMENTATION
A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus - MAKED
Made. Chaucer. - MAKE-UP
The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward. - KNIGHT-ERRANTRY
The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young. - MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. - KNIGHT TEMPLAR
See 3 - IVORYTYPE
A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype. Knight. - KNIGHTLY
Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit. For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit. Spenser. full knightly without scorn. Tennyson. - MAKEWEIGHT
That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap. - KNIGHT SERVICE
A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4. - CEMENTATORY
Having the quality of cementating or uniting firmly. - KNIGHTHOOD
1. The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry. "O shame to knighthood." Shak. If you needs must write, write Cæsar's praise; You 'll gain at least a knighthood, or the bays. Pope. 2. The whole body - KNIGHT'S FEE
The fee of a knight; specif., the amount of land the holding of which imposed the obligation of knight service, being sometimes a hide or less, sometimes six or more hides. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - UNKNIGHT
To deprive of knighthood. Fuller. - SCARCEMENT
An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - SEDUCEMENT
1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - TRADUCEMENT
The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - REDUCEMENT
Reduction. Milton. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n. - WIDOW-MAKER
One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak. - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.