Word Meanings - SCRIMPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
a. & n. from Scrimp, v. t. Scrimping bar, a device used in connection with a calico printing machine for stretching the fabric breadthwise so that it may be smooth for printing. Knight.
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- KNIGHTLESS
Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser. - SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - MACHINER
One who or operates a machine; a machinist. - PRINTLESS
Making no imprint. Milton. - KNIGHT BANNERET
A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - BREADTHWISE
In the direction of the breadth. - PRINTA-BLE
Worthy to be published. - SMOOTHLY
In a smooth manner. - DEVICEFUL
Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman. - SCRIMPINGLY
In a scrimping manner. - PRINT
To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, - FABRICATE
1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship. 2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens. 3. To invent and form; to forge; to - KNIGHT BACHELOR
A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4. - CALICOBACK
The calico bass. An hemipterous insect which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and harlequin cabbage bug. - SMOOTH-SPOKEN
Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued. - PRINTING IN
A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative. - SMOOTHER
One who, or that which, smooths. - FABRICATOR
One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes. The fabricator of the works of Ossian. Mason. - GRAMME MACHINE
A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight. - UNKNIGHT
To deprive of knighthood. Fuller. - BURRING MACHINE
A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. - INFABRICATED
Not fabricated; unwrought; not artificial; natural. - IMPRINT
to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, 1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior. 2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, - SPRINT
To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym: - DISCONNECTION
The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke. - GLIDING MACHINE
A construction consisting essentially of one or more aƫroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - COMPRINT
To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another. E. Phillips. (more info) 1. To print together. - DELTA CONNECTION
One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.