Word Meanings - IMBRICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.

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• LAPPS
  A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• IMBRICATE
  To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.
• LAPPISH
  Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish. -- n.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• LAPPET
  A small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress. Swift. Lappet moth , one of several species of bombycid moths, which have stout, hairy caterpillars, flat beneath. Two common American species (Gastropacha
• SURFACE TENSION
  That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth
• LAPPING
  A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers. Ure. Lapping engine, Lapping machine , A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• ORDERLINESS
  The state or quality of being orderly.
• LAPPONIAN; LAPPONIC
  Laplandish; Lappish.
• ORDER
  1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: Of material things, like the books in a library. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. Of periods of time or
• LAPPACEOUS
  Resembling the capitulum of burdock; covered with forked points.
• ORDERING
  Disposition; distribution; management. South.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• SURFACE
  A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface. (more info) 1. The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face;
• LAPPIC
  Of or pertaining to Lapland, or the Lapps. -- n.
• IMBRICATION
  An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.
• ORDERABLE
  Capable of being ordered; tractable. Being very orderable in all his sickness. Fuller.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• DOUBLE-SURFACED
  Having two surfaces; -- said specif. of aëroplane wings or aërocurves which are covered on both sides with fabric, etc., thus completely inclosing their frames.
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• SLAPPER; SLAPPING
  Very large; monstrous; big.
• DISORDER
  1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And
• DEWLAPPED
  Furnished with a dewlap.
• MISORDERLY
  Irregular; disorderly.
• DISORDERLY
  Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder;
• SEA-BORDERING
  Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.
• RECORDER
  A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. "Flutes and soft recorders." Milton. (more info) 1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions. 2. The title of the