Word Meanings - FURL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.
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- COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - SECURIFORM
Having the form of an ax hatchet. - THERETO
1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer. - STAFFISH
Stiff; harsh. Ascham. - THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer. - THEREOUT
1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer. - CLOSEHANDED
Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n. - THEREUNDER
Under that or this. - CLOSEFISTED
Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne. - SECURER
One who, or that which, secures. - STAFFIER
An attendant bearing a staff. "Staffiers on foot." Hudibras. - SECURENESS
The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security. - SECURITY
1. The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Specifically: Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please. - AROUND
1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took - THEREAFTER
1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, - CLOSE
to G. schliessen to shut, and to E. clot, cloister, clavicle, 1. To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door. 2. To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often - GATHERER
An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects. - COMPASSABLE
Capable of being compassed or accomplished. Burke. - THERE-ANENT
Concerning that. - MEGATHEROID
One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc. - UNCLOSE
1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal. - ENCLOSE
To inclose. See Inclose. - PARCLOSE
A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - BEDSTAFF
"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - ETHEREALITY
The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp. - TAXGATHERER
One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n. - ETHEREALLY
In an ethereal manner. - PINFEATHERED
Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed. - DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.