Word Meanings - LOOKING-GLASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.

Related words: (words related to LOOKING-GLASS)

• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• BACKWORM
  A disease of hawks. See Filanders. Wright.
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• PLACODERMATA
  See PLACODERMI
• BACKSTRESS
  A female baker.
• LOOKDOWN
  See
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• BACKING
  The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover. (more info) 1. The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward. 2. That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually
• BACKHANDER
  A backhanded blow.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• 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.
• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• BACKSLIDING
  Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.
• BACKSTITCH
  A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• PICKABACK
  A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• WARTY-BACK
  An American fresh-water mussel . Its shell is used in making buttons.
• CAMELBACKED; CAMEL-BACKED
  Having a back like a camel; humpbacked. Fuller.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• SLOWBACK
  A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. Dr. Favour.
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• FINBACK
  Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balænoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balænopteridæ, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.