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Word Meanings - ROXBURGH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.

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  • FRONTIERSMAN
    A man living on the frontier.
  • SIDESADDLE
    A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
  • FRONTIERED
    Placed on the frontiers.
  • BOTTOMRY
    A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage
  • FRONTLESSLY
    Shamelessly; impudently.
  • FRONTED
    Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.
  • PLAINTIVE
    1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
  • STYLET
    A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
  • FRONTLET
    The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. (more info) 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8. 2. A frown . What makes that
  • EDGELESS
    Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
  • FRONTAGE
    The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
  • LEATHERWOOD
    A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.
  • PLAINTIFF
    One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
  • CLOTHESLINE
    A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • FRONTIER
    An outwork. Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak. (more info) 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country;
  • FRONTLESS
    Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.
  • LEATHERBACK
    A large sea turtle , having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.
  • FRONTON
    See 2
  • LEATHERY
    Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.
  • SAILCLOTH
    Duck or canvas used in making sails.
  • WHITE-FRONTED
    Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
  • PREKNOWLEDGE
    Prior knowledge.
  • SULPHUR-BOTTOM
    A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
  • ARAEOSTYLE
    See INTERCOLUMNIATION
  • CYCLOSTYLE
    A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
  • CONFRONT
    1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
  • LEDGEMENT
    See LEDGMENT
  • BEDCLOTHES
    Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
  • WEDGY
    Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
  • LEADING EDGE
    same as Advancing edge, above.
  • HEARSECLOTH
    A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
  • INTERPLEDGE
    To pledge mutually.
  • SURSTYLE
    To surname.
  • BREECHCLOTH
    A cloth worn around the breech.
  • UNBOTTOMED
    Deprived of a bottom. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:

 

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