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Word Meanings - HUCKABACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings.

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  • RAISE
    To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
  • RAISED
    1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
  • RAIS
    See REIS
  • CLOTHESLINE
    A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
  • RAISING
    1. The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. 2. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. 3. The operation of embossing sheet metal,
  • LINENER
    A dealer in linen; a linen draper.
  • 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.
  • RAISER
    One who, or that which, raises .
  • 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
  • CLOTHESPIN
    A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
  • RAISIN
    1. A grape, or a bunch of grapes. Cotgrave. 2. A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat. Raisin tree , the common red currant, whose fruit resembles the small raisins of Corinth called currants. Dp. Prior.
  • CLOTHES
    1. Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. If I may touch but his clothes,
  • CLOTHRED
    Clottered. Chaucer.
  • RAISONNE
    Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonné. See under Catalogue.
  • CLOTHESPRESS
    A receptacle for clothes.
  • CLOTH
    cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. klæ'ebi, Dan. klæde, cloth, 1. A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments;
  • RAISABLE
    Capable of being raised.
  • CLOTHE
    1. To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress. Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. Shak. 2. To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly. Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Prov.
  • SAILCLOTH
    Duck or canvas used in making sails.
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • LIVRAISON
    A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
  • BEDCLOTHES
    Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
  • HEBRAIST
    One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.
  • MISRAISE
    To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • HEARSECLOTH
    A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
  • BREECHCLOTH
    A cloth worn around the breech.
  • KARAISM
    Doctrines of the Karaites.
  • NECKCLOTH
    A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
  • FRAISE
    A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. Johnson.
  • 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:
  • OVERPRAISING
    The act of praising unduly; excessive praise. Milton.
  • ULTRAISM
    The principles of those who advocate extreme measures, as radical reform, and the like. Dr. H. More.
  • CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
    Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.

 

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