Word Meanings - LAYETTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The outfit of clothing, blankets, etc., prepared for a newborn infant, and placed ready for used.

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• PLACODERMATA
  See PLACODERMI
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• INFANTLY
  Like an infant. Beau. & Fl.
• INFANTICIDE
  The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder. (more info) antis, child + caedere to kill: cf. F. infanticide. See Infant, and
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• PLACIT
  A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn.
• PREPARATIVELY
  By way of preparation.
• PLACOPHORA
  A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• OUTFITTER
  One who furnishes outfits for a voyage, a journey, or a business.
• READY-MADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• INFANTA
  A title borne by every one of the daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest.
• PLACIDNESS
  The quality or state of being placid.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• PLACOIDIAN
  One of the placoids.
• PLACABLENESS
  The quality of being placable.
• INFANTRY
  A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry. (more info) infant, child, boy servant, foot soldier, fr. L. infans, -antis, child; foot soldiers being formerly the servants and followers of 1. A body of children.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
• BROADCLOTH
  A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
• UNCLOTHED
  Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym: