Word Meanings - PLATERESQUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.

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• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• SILVERFIN
  A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
• SILVERIZE
  To cover with silver.
• SILVER STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
• ARCHITECTURAL
  Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture. -- Ar`chi*tec"tur*al*ly, adv.
• SILVER
  A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite,
• PLATEN
  The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. The movable table of a machine tool,
• SILVERWEED
  A perennial rosaceous herb having the leaves silvery white beneath.
• PLATE-GILLED
  Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.
• PLATE
  1. To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping. 2. To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense. Thus plated
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• PLATERESQUE
  Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• SILVER CERTIFICATE
  A certificate issued by a government that there has been deposited with it silver to a specified amount, payable to the bearer on demand. In the United States and its possessions, it is issued against the deposit of silver coin, and is not legal
• SILVERY
  1. Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright. All the enameled race, whose silvery wing Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring. Pope. 2. Besprinkled or covered with silver. 3. Having the
• SILVERITE
  One who favors the use or establishment of silver as a monetary
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• SILVERSMITH
  One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• SILVERN
  Made of silver. Wyclif . Speech is silvern; silence is golden. Old Proverb.
• WET PLATE
  A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VEILED PLATE
  A fogged plate.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• FREE SILVER
  The free coinage of silver; often, specif., the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio with gold, as at the ratio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• REP-SILVER
  Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.
• TERNEPLATE
  Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals.
• BREASTPLATE
  A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.