Word Meanings - GRIDIRON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs. 3. (more info) 1. A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.
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- PLACODERMATA
See PLACODERMI - CLEANSABLE
Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood. - CLEAN-CUT
See CLEAR-CUT - GRATICULE
A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - CLEANNESS
1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - PLACID
Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay. - FLESHMENT
The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak. - GRATICULATION
The division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions. (more info) graticuler, craticuler, to square, fr. graticule, craticule, - CLEANING
1. The act of making clean. 2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner. - FLESHHOOD
The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning. - CLEANLINESS
State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift. - PLACIT
A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn. - GRATITUDE
The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness. The debt immense of endless gratitude. Milton. - PLACOPHORA
A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura. - UTENSIL
That which is used; an instrument; an implement; especially, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business. Wagons fraught with utensils of war. Milton. (more info) utensilis that may be used, fit for use, fr. uti, - CLEANLY
1. Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith. 2. Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. "With cleanly powder dry their - CLEAN
Free from ceremonial defilement. 8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." F. Harrison. 9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs. A clean bill of health, a certificate from the - MIGRATION
The act of migrating. - INTEGRATOR
That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined. - UNPLACABLE
Implacable. - UNFRAME
To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden. - DISEMBROIL
To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison. - INGRATEFUL
1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness, - REGRATE
To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance. 2. To offend; to shock. Derham. - UNCLEAN
1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - DEFLAGRATION
The act or process of deflagrating. (more info) 1. A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson.