Word Meanings - FILLISTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty. Knight. 2. A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.

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• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• OUTER
  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• 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.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• PUTTYROOT
  An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called
• CONVEXED
  Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• CONVEXEDNESS
  Convexity.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• 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
• CONVEX
  Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a
• GLASSINESS
  The quality of being glassy.
• GLASSWORT
  A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• GLASS-ROPE
  A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• SOUTER
  A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.