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 - INFANTLY
Like an infant. Beau. & Fl. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - 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: