Word Meanings - INSHAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

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• CONCAVED
  Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• CONCAVE
  1. Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky. 2. Hollow; void
• BARRELED; BARRELLED
  Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• PLANETED
  Belonging to planets. Young.
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• SHAVING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor. 2. That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument. "Shaving
• PLANETOIDAL
  Pertaining to a planetoid.
• DRESSING
  An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.;
• SHAVER
  A tool or machine for shaving. A note shaver, a person who buys (more info) 1. One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave. 2. One who is close in bargains; a sharper. Swift. 3. One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer. By these shavers the
• INSIDE
  Within the sides of; in the interior; contained within; as, inside a house, book, bottle, etc.
• DRESSY
  Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.
• DRESS COAT
  A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
• CONCAVENESS
  Hollowness; concavity.
• PLANET
  A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system. Note: The term planet was first used
• DRESSMAKING
  The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• CONVEXO-PLANE
  Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
• TOP-DRESSING
  The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.
• DOORPLANE
  A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.
• TENDRESSE
  Tender feeling; fondness.
• DOUBLE-BARRELED; DOUBLE-BARRELLED
  Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.