Word Meanings - TESTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

têtière a head covering, fr. OF. teste the head, F. tête, fr. L. 1. A headpiece; a helmet. The shields bright, testers, and trappures. Chaucer. 2. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. Oxf. Gross. 3. A canopy over a bed, supported by the

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têtière a head covering, fr. OF. teste the head, F. tête, fr. L. 1. A headpiece; a helmet. The shields bright, testers, and trappures. Chaucer. 2. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. Oxf. Gross. 3. A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts. No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold. Walpole.

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• BRIGHT
  See I
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• HELMETED
  Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet- shaped part; galeate.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• TESTES
  pl. of Teste, or of Testis.
• PULPITED
  Placed in a pulpit. Sit . . . at the feet of a pulpited divine. Milton.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• PULPITER
  A preacher.
• PULPITISH
  Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching. Chalmers.
• TESTERN
  A sixpence; a tester.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• COVERER
  One who, or that which, covers.
• COVERCHIEF
  A covering for the head. Chaucer.
• COVERTLY
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• INCONTESTED
  Not contested. Addison.
• INSUPPORTABLE
  Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• DISCOVERABLE
  Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
• DISCOVERY
  1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
• IRRECOVERABLE
  Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless.