Word Meanings - GULLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large knife. Sir W. Scott.

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• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• KNIFE SWITCH
  A switch consisting of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs.
• 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.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• 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;
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• LARGET
  A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
• KNIFE
  1. An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife,
• KNIFEBOARD
  A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
• 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
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• KNIFEEDGE; KNIFE-EDGE
  A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. Knife-edge file. See Illust. of
• LARGELY
  In a large manner. Dryden. Milton.
• LARGENESS
  The quality or state of being large.
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• 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
• CASE KNIFE
  1. A knife carried in a sheath or case. Addison. 2. A large table knife; -- so called from being formerly kept in a case.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• BOWIE KNIFE
  A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie.
• DRAWING KNIFE; DRAWKNIFE
  A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood. (more info) 1. A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing
• PENKNIFE
  A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.
• POCKETKNIFE
  A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.
• JACKKNIFE
  A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
• ENLARGED
  Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n.
• FOOL-LARGE
  Foolishly liberal. Chaucer.
• ENLARGE
  Etym: 1. To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. To enlarge their possessions of land. Locke. 2. To increase the capacity of; to expand;