Word Meanings - KEG - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A small cask or barrel.
Related words: (words related to KEG)
- SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - BARRELED; BARRELLED
Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun. - 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. - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - SMALL
sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity - SMALLAGE
A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery. - SMALLY
In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham. - SMALLNESS
The quality or state of being small. - SMALLS
See 3 - SMALLSWORD
A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century. - BARREL
The hollow basal part of a feather. Barrel bulk , a measure equal to five cubic feet, used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight. -- Barrel drain , a drain in the form of a cylindrical tube. -- Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - DOUBLE-BARRELED; DOUBLE-BARRELLED
Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun. - ABYSMALLY
To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot. - UNBARREL
To remove or release from a barrel or barrels. - BAPTISMALLY
In a baptismal manner.