Word Meanings - STEEPLE-CROWNED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building. 2. Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne.

Related words: (words related to STEEPLE-CROWNED)

• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• CROWNED
  1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• WEARIABLE
  That may be wearied.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• WEARING
  1. The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer. 2. That which is worn; clothes; garments. Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• WEARILY
  In a weary manner.
• CROWNLAND
  In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• STEEPLE
  A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
• CROWN-SAW
  A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. Note: The trephine was the first of the class of crownsaws. Knight.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• CROWNLESS
  Without a crown.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• REPLEVISABLE
  Repleviable. Sir M. Hale.
• INDISPENSABLENESS
  The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• MAINSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Blount.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• DISPENSABLE
  1. Capable of being dispensed or administered. 2. Capable of being dispensed with. Coleridge.