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Word Meanings - THOROUGH-LIGHTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building. Gwilt.

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  • SIDESADDLE
    A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
  • THOROUGHWORT
    See BONESET
  • LIGHTSOME
    1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness
  • THOROUGH BASS
    The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.
  • PROVIDENCE
    A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor. 4. Prudence in
  • PROVIDORE
    One who makes provision; a purveyor. De Foe.
  • THOROUGHNESS
    The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.
  • THOROUGH-LIGHTED
    Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building. Gwilt.
  • THOROUGHWAX
    An umbelliferous plant with perfoliate leaves. Thoroughwort.
  • PROVIDE
    1. To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare. "Provide us all things necessary." Shak. 2. To supply; to afford; to contribute. Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind,
  • PROVIDENTLY
    In a provident manner.
  • BUILDING
    1. The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster. Bp. Hall. 2. The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture. The execution of works of architecture
  • THOROUGHLY
    In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.
  • THOROUGHPIN
    A disease of the hock of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing
  • OPPOSITENESS
    The quality or state of being opposite.
  • BUILDER
    One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc.
  • THOROUGHPACED
    Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig. If she be a thoroughplaced impostor. Sir W. Scott.
  • THOROUGH
    Through. Spenser. Shak.
  • BUILD
    bilden, AS. byldan to build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. bol farm, abode, Dan. bol small farm, OSw. bol, böle, house, dwelling, fr. root 1. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a
  • THOROUGHSPED
    Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced. Swift.
  • SHIPBUILDER
    A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
  • OUTBUILD
    To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
  • IMPROVIDENTLY
    In a improvident manner. "Improvidently rash." Drayton.
  • OVERBUILD
    1. To build over. Milton. 2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand.
  • IMPROVIDED
    Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared. All improvided for dread of death. E. Hall.
  • UNDERBUILDER
    A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.
  • REBUILDER
    One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.
  • REBUILD
    To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.
  • IRONSIDES
    A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry.
  • UNBUILD
    To demolish; to raze. "To unbuild the city." Shak.

 

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