Word Meanings - OVERALLS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A kind of loose trousers worn over others to protect them from soiling. 2. Waterproof leggings. R. D. Blackmore.

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• SOILY
  Dirty; soiled. Fuller.
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• SOILURE
  Stain; pollution. Shak. Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk. Tennyson.
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• SOIL PIPE
  A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.
• PROTECTORIAL
  See PROTECTORAL
• SOIL
  To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence , to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.
• PROTECTORLESS
  Having no protector; unprotected.
• SOILLESS
  Destitute of soil or mold.
• PROTECTIVE
  Affording protection; sheltering; defensive. " The favor of a protective Providence." Feltham. Protective coloring , coloring which serves for the concealment and preservation of a living organism. Cf. Mimicry. Wallace. -- Protective tariff ,
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• PROTECTIONIST
  One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
• WATERPROOF
  Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
• PROTECTIVENESS
  The quality or state of being protective. W. Pater.
• LOOSESTRIFE
  The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
• TROUSERS
  A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately. pants; used attrib. in the singular, as a trouser leg; see pant (more info) trousse, trosse, a bundle, a truss. See Truss, and
• LOOSENESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
• PROTECTIONISM
  The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.
• PROTECTORSHIP
  , The office of a protector or regent; protectorate.
• PROTECTINGLY
  By way of protection; in a protective manner.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• TOPSOIL
  The upper layer of soil; surface soil.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• ASSOILZIE; ASSOILYIE
  To absolve; to acquit by sentence of court. God assoilzie him for the sin of bloodshed. Sir W. Scott.