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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.

 

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