Word Meanings - THIMBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure. Specifically: -- A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes. A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole. A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in

Additional info about word: THIMBLE

Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure. Specifically: -- A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes. A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole. A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England. (more info) 1. A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle.

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• LINGET
  An ingot.
• LINGISM
  A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• LINNE
  Flax. See Linen.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• STRUTTING
  from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
• PLACODERMATA
  See PLACODERMI
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• LINAGE
  See HOLLAND
• LINGUAL
  Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter. Lingual ribbon. See Odontophore.
• LINNAEA BOREALIS
  The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• LINCHI
  An esculent swallow.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• LINKS
  A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green. A second links has recently been opened at Prestwick, and another at Troon, on the same coast. P. P. Alexander.
• LINER
  A thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc., ; a shim. (more info) 1. One who lines, as, a liner of shoes. 2. A vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a line-of- battle ship; a ship of the line.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• COLLINEATION
  The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson.
• BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
  See WORM
• DUCKLING
  A young or little duck. Gay.
• TOOLING
  Work perfomed with a tool. The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• SCRAMBLING
  Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
• MEDULLIN
  A variety of lignin or cellulose found in the medulla, or pith, of certain plants. Cf. Lignin, and Cellulose.
• RIDGELING
  A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
• TOWELING
  Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• RECTILINEAL; RECTILINEAR
  Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*al*ly, adv. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.