Word Meanings - SHIPPON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cowhouse; a shippen. Bessy would either do fieldwork, or attend to the cows, the shippon, or churn, or make cheese. Dickens.

Related words: (words related to SHIPPON)

• ATTENDMENT
  An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
• CHEESE CLOTH
  A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.
• WOULDINGNESS
  Willingness; desire.
• WOULD-BE
  ' (as, a would-be poet.
• ATTENDANT
  Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
• ATTENDANCE
  1. Attention; regard; careful application. Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13. 2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times
• CHEESEPARING
  A thin portion of the rind of a cheese. -- a.
• SHIPPON
  A cowhouse; a shippen. Bessy would either do fieldwork, or attend to the cows, the shippon, or churn, or make cheese. Dickens.
• DICKENS
  The devil. I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.
• ATTENDANCY
  The quality of attending or accompanying; attendance; an attendant.
• ATTENDER
  One who, or that which, attends.
• WOULD
  Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will. Note: Would was formerly used also as the past participle of Will. Right as our Lord hath would. Chaucer.
• ATTEND
  L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.
• CHEESE
  1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold. 2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed togehter in the form of a cheese. 3. The flat, circuliar, mucilaginous
• FIELDWORK
  Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural. All works which do not come under the head of permanent fortification are called fieldworks. Wilhelm.
• SHIPPEN
  A stable; a cowhouse.
• WOULDING
  Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity. Hammond.
• ATTENDEMENT
  Intent. Spenser.
• CHEESEMONGER
  One who deals incheese. B. Jonson.
• CHURNING
  1. The act of one who churns. 2. The quantity of butter made at one operation.
• EDAM; EDAM CHEESE
  A Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.
• CAMEMBERT; CAMEMBERT CHEESE
  A kind of soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made.
• GRUYERE CHEESE
  '' (Gruyère, Switzerland. It is a firm cheese containing numerous cells, and is known in the United States as Schweitzerkäse.
• SLIPCOAT CHEESE
  A rich variety of new cheese, resembling butter, but white. Halliwell.
• MISATTEND
  To misunderstand; to disregard. Milton.
• BRIE CHEESE
  A kind of soft French cream cheese; -- so called from the district in France where it is made; --called also fromage de Brie.
• STILTON CHEESE; STILTON
  A peculiarly flavored unpressed cheese made from milk with cream added; -- so called from the village or parish of Stilton, England, where it was originally made. It is very rich in fat. Thus, in the outset he was gastronomic; discussed the dinner