Word Meanings - STYLOBATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.

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• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• COPYING
  From Copy, v. Copying ink. See under Ink. -- Copying paper, thin unsized paper used for taking copies of letters, etc., in a copying press. -- Copying press, a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink.
• COPROLITE
  A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• COPATAIN
  Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top. A copatain hat made on a Flemish block. Gascoigne.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• COPED
  Clad in a cope.
• COPIST
  A copier. "A copist after nature." Shaftesbury.
• COPEMAN
  A chapman; a dealer; a merchant. He would have sold his part of paradise For ready money, had he met a copeman. B. Jonson.
• COPARCENARY
  Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of sucession to an inheritance.
• COPE
  The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold. Knight. De Colange. (more info) 1. A covering for the head. Johnson. 2. Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch
• COPULATE
  Joining subject and predicate; copulative. F. A. March. (more info) 1. Joined; associated; coupled. Bacon.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• COPPER-FACED
  Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
• COPYIST
  A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.
• COPROPHAGAN
  A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.
• COPARTMENT
  A compartment. T. Warton.
• PAVEMENT
  That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement,
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• COPPERWORM
  The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. The ringworm.
• ONEIROSCOPY
  The interpretation of dreams.
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• HYGROSCOPICITY
  The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• METEOROSCOPE
  An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
• OTOSCOPEIC
  Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy.
• SCOPELINE
  Scopeloid.
• LYCOPODE
  See LYCOPODIUM
• ENDOSCOPE
  An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
• MICROSPECTROSCOPE
  A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.
• EPISCOPALIANISM
  The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy.
• MISCOPY
  To copy amiss.