Word Meanings - LAPPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - LAPPS
A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia. - MACHINER
One who or operates a machine; a machinist. - ENGINER
A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. Shak. - ENGINERY
1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton. 2. Engines, in general; instruments of war. Training his devilish enginery. Milton. 3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - FIBER-FACED; FIBRE-FACED
Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - FIBER; FIBRE
1. One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle. 2. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one - WRAPPAGE
1. The act of wrapping. 2. That which wraps; envelope; covering. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - BLANKET STITCH
A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - LAPPISH
Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish. -- n. - WRAPPER
1. One who, or that which, wraps. 2. That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering. 3. Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's - FORME
See PATTé - FORMEDON
A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished. - BLANKET CLAUSE
A clause, as in a blanket mortgage or policy, that includes a group or class of things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them. - GRAMME MACHINE
A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - AIR ENGINE
An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - MALCONFORMATION
Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts. - PENNIFORM
Having the form of a feather or plume. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good. - BURRING MACHINE
A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.