Word Meanings - QUILLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills. One of the rounded plaits or flutings of such a band.

Related words: (words related to QUILLING)

• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• PLAIT
  of plicare to fold, akin to plectere to plait. See Ply, and cf. Plat 1. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings of the drapery. Addison. 2. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. Polish plait. Same
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• FLUTING
  Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• FOLDLESS
  Having no fold. Milman.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• FLUTED
  1. Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby. 2. Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• FOLD
  falten, Icel. falda, Dan. folde, Sw. fålla, Goth. fal, cf. Gr.pu a 1. To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter. As a vesture shalt thou fold them up. Heb. i. 12. 2.
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• FOLDER
  One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.
• MUSLIN
  A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins. Muslin cambric. See Cambric. -- Muslin delaine, a light woolen fabric for women's dresses. See Delaine. (more
• ROUNDHEADED
  Having a round head or top.
• LINENER
  A dealer in linen; a linen draper.
• ROUNDHEAD
  A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone.
• FLUTEMOUTH
  A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
• ROUND
  To whisper. Shak. Holland. The Bishop of Glasgow rounding in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," . . . he rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here" Calderwood.
• MANIFOLD
  1. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Ps. civ. 24. I know your manifold transgressions. Amos v. 12. 2. Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• EIGHTFOLD
  Eight times a quantity.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• INFOLD
  1. To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve. Gilded tombs do worms infold. Shak. Infold his limbs in bands. Blackmore. 2. To clasp with the arms; to embrace. Noble Banquo, . . . let me infold thee, And hold
• MILLIFOLD
  Thousandfold. Davies .
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.