Word Meanings - FLEETINGS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds. Wright.

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• WRIGHT
  One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.
• BUTTERMILK
  The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.
• BOILED
  Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
• BOILARY
  See BOILERY
• BOIL
  1. To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water. 2. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt. 3. To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific
• BOILING
  Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena
• BOILERY
  A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
• MIXTURE
  A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved. (more info) 1. The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a
• WRIGHTINE
  A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree , and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrhoea. Called also conessine, and neriine.
• BOILINGLY
  With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron.
• BOILER
  A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes. Note: The earliest steam boilers were
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• OVERBOIL
  To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• IMBOIL
  See EMBOIL
• NATAL BOIL
  = Aleppo boil.
• WAINWRIGHT
  See WAGONWRIGHT
• ALEPPO BOIL; ALEPPO BUTTON; ALEPPO EVIL
  A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.
• PARBOIL
  through + bouillir to boil, L. bullire. The sense has been 1. To boil or cook thoroughly. B. Jonson. 2. To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
• MILLWRIGHT
  A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.
• WHEELWRIGHT
  A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
• PLOWWRIGHT; PLOUGHWRIGHT
  One who makes or repairs plows.
• LANCASHIRE BOILER
  . A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.
• HOUSEWRIGHT
  A builder of houses.
• INTERMIXTURE
  1. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. Boyle. 2. Admixture; an additional ingredient. In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly. Bacon.
• IMMIXTURE
  Freedom from mixture; purity. W. Montagu.