Word Meanings - MOORPAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc.
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- MOORSTONE
A species of English granite, used as a building stone. - LAYERING
A propagating by layers. Gardner. - UNDERLYING
Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles. - CLAYEY
Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay. - LAYER
That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. 3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached - WAYLAYER
One who waylays another. - TRACKLAYER
Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n. - DISPLAYER
One who, or that which, displays. - PLAYER
1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester; - SLAYER
One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life. - UNDERLAYER
A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth. Weale. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer. - STAGEPLAYER
An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer. - OVERLAYER
One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid. - MISLAYER
One who mislays. - PIPELAYER; PIPE LAYER
A politician who works in secret; -- in this sense, usually written as one word. (more info) 1. One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc. - BRICKLAYER
One whose pccupation is to build with bricks. Bricklayer's itch. See under Itch. - ALLAYER
One who, or that which, allays. - MANSLAYER
One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter. - WOOD-LAYER
A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges. - INLAYER
One who inlays, or whose occupation it is to inlay.