Word Meanings - REAPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who reaps. The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads. Macaulay. 2. A reaping machine.

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• REAP
  A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. Wright.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• WIPER
  A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam. (more info) 1. One who, or that
• BURNIEBEE
  The ladybird.
• REAPPEARANCE
  A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
• BURNET
  A genus of perennial herbs ; especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth , in England, a handsome moth , with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant . --
• REAPPROACH
  To approach again or anew.
• BURNER
  1. One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything. 2. The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced. Bunsen's burner , a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four
• REAPPLY
  To apply again.
• BURN
  To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
• WIPE
  1. Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean. 2. A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe. 3. A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm. Swift. 4. A handkerchief. 5. Stain; brand. "Slavish wipe." Shak.
• BURNT
  Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. Burnt ear, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See Smut. -- Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as
• BURNABLE
  Combustible. Cotgrave.
• REAPPORTION
  To apportion again.
• REAPPOINTMENT
  The act of reappointing, or the state of being reappointed.
• BURNOOSE; BURNOUS
  cf. F. bournous, burnous, Sp. al-bornoz, a sort of upper garment, 1. A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• OVERBURN
  To burn too much; to be overzealous.
• SUNBURNING
  Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• SUNBURN
  To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.
• GAS-BURNER
  The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
• AUBURN
  1. Flaxen-colored. Florio. 2. Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• PREAPPREHENSION
  An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge. Sir T. Browne.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• LABURNUM
  A small leguminous tree , native of the Alps. The plant is reputed to be poisonous, esp. the bark and seeds. It has handsome racemes of yellow blossoms. Note: Scotch laburnum is similar, but has smooth leaves; purple laburnum is C. purpureus.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.