Word Meanings - SWANSKIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on. 2. A species of soft flannel, thick and warm.

Related words: (words related to SWANSKIN)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• FLANNELED
  Covered or wrapped in flannel.
• THICKSET
  1. Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge. Dryden. 2. Having a short, thick body; stout.
• FEATHERSTITCH
  A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
• THICK
  ; akin to D. dik, OS. thikki, OHG. dicchi thick, dense, G. dick 1. Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seven inches thick. Were it as thick
• THICKSKIN
  A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.
• THICK-KNEE
  A stone curlew. See under Stone.
• THICK-HEADED
  Having a thick skull; stupid.
• THICKET
  A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.
• THICKHEAD
  Any one of several species of Australian singing birds of the genus Pachycephala. The males of some of the species are bright- colored. Some of the species are popularly called thrushes. (more info) 1. A thick-headed or stupid person.
• FLANNEL
  A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture. Shak. Adam's flannel. See under Adam. -- Canton flannel, Cotton flannel. See Cotton flannel, under Cotton. (more info) mattress; fr. W. gwlanen flannel, fr. gwlan wool; prob. akin to E.
• THICKISH
  Somewhat thick.
• THICKLY
  In a thick manner; deeply; closely.
• CANTON FLANNEL
  See FLANNEL
• WATER FLANNEL
  A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga .
• SUBSPECIES
  A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.