Word Meanings - TABLE-LAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau. The toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are close upon the shining table- lands To which our God himself is moon and sun. Tennyson.
Related words: (words related to TABLE-LAND)
- TABLER
1. One who boards. 2. One who boards others for hire. B. Jonson. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries. - SCALABLE
Capable of being scaled. - TABLEAU VIVANT
See 2 - LANDSTHING
See BELOW - TABLEMAN
A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. Bacon. - SHINDLE
A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. Holland. - SHINGLER
1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron. - BROADSWORD
A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott. - BROADBILL
A wild duck , which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; - - called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck. - LANDSKIP
A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton. - BROADLY
In a broad manner. - SCALAR
In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction. - SCALARIFORM
Like or pertaining to a scalaria. (more info) 1. Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants. - BROAD
Characterized by breadth. See Breadth. 9. Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor. 10. Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent. Note: Broad is often used in compounds to signify wide, large, etc.; - CLOSEHANDED
Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n. - LANDSMAN
A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman. - 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. - LEVELER
1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist. - IMPALATABLE
Unpalatable. - SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing. - MOUNTABLE
Such as can be mounted. - MISINTERPRETABLE
Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood. - UNWARRANTABLE
Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv. - POSTABLE
Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu. - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable. - ACCEPTABLE
Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us. - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - INTESTABLE
Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone. - MARKETABLENESS
Quality of being marketable. - COUNTABLE
Capable of being numbered. - NASCAL
A kind of pessary of medicated wool or cotton, formerly used. - CONTRADICTABLE
Capable of being contradicting. - INEXPECTABLE
Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall. - GUNTER'S SCALE
A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales