Word Meanings - ROUGHDRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.

Related words: (words related to ROUGHDRY)

• IRONBARK TREE
  The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders; -- called also ironwood.
• IRONIC
  Ironical. Sir T. Herbert.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• IRONIST
  One who uses irony.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• IRONWOOD
  A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood. Note: In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam are so called; also the Olneya Tesota, a small tree of Arizona; in the West Indies, the Erythroxylon areolatum, and several other unrelated
• SMOOTH
  1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16.
• IRONWEED
  A tall weed with purplish flowers . The name is also applied to other plants of the same genus.
• IRONISH
  Resembling iron, as in taste. Wood.
• IRON
  1. Of, or made of iron; consisting of iron; as, an iron bar, dust. 2. Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness. 3. Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.; as: Rude; hard; harsh; severe. Iron
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• IRON-SIDED
  Having iron sides, or very firm sides.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• LAUNDRYMAN
  A man who follows the business of laundering.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• IRONMONGER
  A dealer in iron or hardware.
• IRON-CASED
  Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel; ironclad.
• IRONWORT
  An herb of the Mint family , supposed to heal sword cuts; also, a species of Galeopsis.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• CAST-IRON
  Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.
• T IRON
  See T
• LOFTING IRON
  See LOFTER
• BAR IRON
  See IRON
• COBIRON
  An andiron with a knob at the top. Bacon.
• TIRONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.
• TEE IRON
  See T