Word Meanings - TANNAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tanning; the act, operation, or result of tanning. They should have got his cheek fresh tannage. R. Browning.

Related words: (words related to TANNAGE)

• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• FRESHNESS
  The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
• FRESHET
  1. A stream of fresh water. Milton. 2. A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.
• TANNATE
  A salt of tannic acid.
• RESULTIVE
  Resultant. Fuller.
• TANNIN
  See TANNIC
• FRESHLY
  In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly. Looks he as freshly as he did Shak.
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• CHEEKED
  Having a cheek; -- used in composition. "Rose-cheeked Adonis." Shak.
• FRESHMAN
  novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes
• CHEEKY
  a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.
• FRESH-WATER
  1. Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels. 2. Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor. 3. Unskilled;
• FRESHMANSHIP
  The state of being a freshman.
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• TANNIC
  Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid. Tannic acid. An acid obtained from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, C14H10O9, having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound,
• FRESH
  AS. fersc; akin to D. versch, G. frisch, OHG. frisc, Sw. frisk, Dan. frisk, fersk, Icel. fr frisky, brisk, ferskr fresh; cf. It. fresco, OF. fres, freis, fem. freske, fresche, F. frais, fem. fra, which are 1. Possessed of original life and vigor;
• BROWNNESS
  The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
• BROWNWORT
  A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
• STANNYEL; STANYEL
  See STANNEL
• STANNINE; STANNITE
  A mineral of a steel
• BRITANNIC
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• STANNARY
  Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works. The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record. Blackstone.
• STANNATE
  A salt of stannic acid.
• STANNOUS
  Pertaining to, or containing, tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with stannic compounds. Stannous chloride , a white crystalline substance, SnCl2. 2, obtained by dissolving tin
• STANNOSO-
  A combining form denoting relation to, or connection with, certain stannnous compounds.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• BRITANNIA
  A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and isused for table ware. Called also Britannia metal.
• AFRESH
  Anew; again; once more; newly. They crucify . . . the Son of God afresh. Heb. vi. 6.
• METASTANNATE
  A salt of metastannic acid.