Word Meanings - HODDENGRAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants.

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• SCOTCHING
  Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• COARSELY
  In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• SCOTCH RITE
  The ceremonial observed by one of the Masonic systems, called in full the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite; also, the system itself, which confers thirty-three degrees, of which the first three are nearly identical with those of the York rite.
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• CLOTHIER
  1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.
• SCOTCH
  Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish. Scotch broom , the Cytisus scoparius. See Broom. -- Scotch dipper, or Scotch duck , the bufflehead; -- called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch.
• CLOTHING
  See CARD (more info) 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing
• SCOTCH TERRIER
  One of a breed of small terriers with long, rough hair.
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• CLOTHESPIN
  A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• UNDYING
  Not dying; imperishable; unending; immortal; as, the undying souls of men.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
• BROADCLOTH
  A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
• UNCLOTHED
  Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.