Word Meanings - SOUTHWESTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest. 2. A hat made of painted canvas, oiled cloth, or the like, with a flap at the back, -- worn in stormy weather.

Related words: (words related to SOUTHWESTER)

• WEATHERING
  The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• WEATHERWISER
  Something that foreshows the weather. Derham.
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• OILLET
  A small opening or loophole, sometimes circular, used in mediæval fortifications. A small circular opening, and ring of moldings surrounding it, used in window tracery in Gothic architecture.
• OILNUT
  The buffalo nut. See Buffalo nut, under Buffalo. Note: The name is also applied to various nuts and seeds yielding oil, as the butternut, cocoanut, oil-palm nut.
• OIL
  Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for
• WEATHER-BIT
  A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
• STORMING
  from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.
• STRONGYLOID
  Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
• WEATHER MAP
  A map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given hour and over an extended region. Such maps usually show the height of the barometer, the temperature of the air, the relative humidity, the state of the weather,
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• PAINTING
  The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation
• OILED
  Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil. Oiled silk, silk rendered waterproof by saturation with boiled oil.
• PAINTER
  A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. (more info) panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin,
• OILSTONE
  A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.
• CANVASSER
  One who canvasses.
• WEATHER SIGNAL
  Any signal giving information about the weather. The system used by the United States Weather Bureau includes temperature, cold or hot wave, rain or snow, wind direction, storm, and hurricane signals.
• STRONGYLID
  Strongyloid.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• DISEMBROIL
  To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
• CHOKING COIL
  A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.
• BEMOIL
  To soil or encumber with mire and dirt. Shak.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• OVERBOIL
  To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• QUATREFEUILLE; QUATREFOIL
  See QUARTERFOIL
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• SOILY
  Dirty; soiled. Fuller.
• UNCOIL
  To unwind or open, as a coil of rope. Derham.