Word Meanings - GAMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large umbrella; --said to allude to Mrs. Gamp's umbrella, in Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit."

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• MARTIN
  A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.
• MARTINETISM
  The principles or practices of a martinet; rigid adherence to discipline, etc.
• MARTINMAS
  The feast of St. Martin, the eleventh of November; -- often called martlemans. Martinmas summer, a period of calm, warm weather often experienced about the time of Martinmas; Indian summer. Percy Smith.
• MARTINGALE; MARTINGAL
  A lower stay of rope or chain for the jib boom or flying jib boom, fastened to, or reeved through, the dolphin striker. Also, the dolphin striker itself. (more info) martingala a sort of hose, martingale, Sp. martingala a greave, 1. A
• UMBRELLA
  The umbrellalike disk, or swimming bell, of a jellyfish. (more info) 1. A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• MARTINETA
  A species of tinamou , having a long slender crest.
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• DICKENS
  The devil. I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.
• ALLUDE
  To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction. These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial
• MARTINET
  In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or
• LARGE
  Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. At large. Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. Diffusely; fully;
• LARGET
  A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
• LARGESS; LARGESSE
  1. Liberality; generosity; bounty. Fulfilled of largesse and of all grace. Chaucer. 2. A present; a gift; a bounty bestowed. The heralds finished their proclamation with their usual cry of "Largesse, largesse, gallant knights!" and gold and silver
• LARGELY
  In a large manner. Dryden. Milton.
• LARGENESS
  The quality or state of being large.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• SUBUMBRELLA
  The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish.
• FREE-MARTIN
  An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male.
• SIEMENS-MARTIN PROCESS
  See OPEN
• ENLARGED
  Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n.
• FOOL-LARGE
  Foolishly liberal. Chaucer.