Word Meanings - PAVEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement,

Additional info about word: PAVEMENT

That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton. Pavement teeth , flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.

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• PAVON
  A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• RICHESSE
  Wealth; riches. See the Note under Riches. Some man desireth for to have richesse. Chaucer. The richesse of all heavenly grace. Spenser.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• INTERIOR
  1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball. 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore;
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• PAVID
  Timid; fearful. Thackeray.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• SIDEWALK
  A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
• PAVAGE
  See PAVAGE
• PAVESE; PAVESSE
  Pavise.
• TRAVELER
  A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• PAVONIAN
  Of or pertaining to a peacock. Southey.
• CONVENIENTLY
  In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• IMPAVE
  To pave. Impaved with rude fidelity Of art mosaic. Wordsworth.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• CONSOLIDATED
  Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• CONSOLIDATION
  To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. (more info) 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the