Word Meanings - HUCKABACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings.
Related words: (words related to HUCKABACK)
- 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.