Word Meanings - STILL-CLOSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Ever closing. "Still-clothing waters." Shak.
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- STILL
1. A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation. 2. A - STILLBIRTH
The birth of a dead fetus. - STILLY
Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore. - CLOSEHANDED
Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n. - STILLSTAND
A standstill. Shak. - STILLING
A stillion. - CLOTHESLINE
A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. - STILLAGE
A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight. - CLOSEFISTED
Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne. - STILLION
A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying. - STILLROOM
1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens. - STILL-HUNT
A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n. - CLOSEN
To make close. - CLOSER
The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot. 2. A finisher; that which finishes - CLOTHESHORSE
A frame to hang clothes on. - STILLATORY
1. An alembic; a vessel for distillation. Bacon. 2. A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton. - STILL-CLOSING
Ever closing. "Still-clothing waters." Shak. - CLOSE-FIGHTS
Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. - CLOSEHAULED
Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel. - CLOTHIER
1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - CYCLOSTYLE
A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred - INSTILL
To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To - BEDCLOTHES
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak. - UNCLOSE
1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal. - ENCLOSE
To inclose. See Inclose. - PISTILLIFEROUS
Pistillate. - PARCLOSE
A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook. - HEARSECLOTH
A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - DISTILLABLE
Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable. - DISTILLATION
The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible - FINESTILLER
One who finestills. - CYCLOSTYLAR
Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within. Weale. - NECKCLOTH
A piece of any fabric worn around the neck. - BROADCLOTH
A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide. - ENCLOSURE
Inclosure. See Inclosure. Note: The words enclose and enclosure are written indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or inclosure.