Word Meanings - KITCHEN-RY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The body of servants employed in the kitchen. Holland.
Related words: (words related to KITCHEN-RY)
- KITCHEN MIDDENS
Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada - HOLLANDAISE SAUCE; HOLLANDAISE
A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar. - KITCHEN
coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. 1. A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden. - EMPLOYER
One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen. - HOLLAND
A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands. - KITCHEN-RY
The body of servants employed in the kitchen. Holland. - KITCHENETTE
A room combining a very small kitchen and a pantry, with the kitchen conveniences compactly arranged, sometimes so that they fold up out of sight and allow the kitchen to be made a part of the adjoining room by opening folding doors. - HOLLANDS
See HOLLAND (more info) 1. Gin made in Holland. 2. pl. - HOLLANDISH
Relating to Holland; Dutch. - HOLLANDER
1. A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman. 2. A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner. - KITCHENMAID
A woman employed in the kitchen. Shak. - EMPLOYMENT
1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; - EMPLOYEE
One employed by another. - EMPLOYE
One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer. - KITCHENER
A kitchen servant; a cook. Carlyle. - EMPLOYABLE
Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle. - EMPLOY
implicate, engage; in + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Imply, 1. To inclose; to infold. Chaucer. 2. To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: - UNEMPLOYMENT
Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent. - UNEMPLOYED
1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital. - PREEMPLOY
To employ beforehand. "Preƫmployed by him." Shak. - DISEMPLOYMENT
The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor. - MISEMPLOYMENT
Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson. - DISEMPLOY
To throw out of employment. Jer. Taylor.