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Word Meanings - TONSOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A barber. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to TONSOR)

  • BARBER FISH
    See FISH
  • BARBERMONGER
    A fop.
  • SCOTTICIZE
    To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
  • BARBER
    One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons. Barber's itch. See under Itch. Note: Formerly the barber practiced some offices of surgery, such as letting blood and pulling teeth. Hence such
  • SCOTTISH
    Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
  • SCOTTISH TERRIER
    See TERRIER
  • SCOTTERING
    The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
  • BARBERRY
    A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes
  • SCOTTICISM
    An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
  • MASCOT; MASCOTTE
    A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.

 

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