Word Meanings - TRUSS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes. (more info) 1. A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. Fabyan. Bearing a truss of trifles at his back. Spenser.
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A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes. (more info) 1. A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. Fabyan. Bearing a truss of trifles at his back. Spenser. Note: A truss of hay in England is 56 lbs. of old and 60 lbs. of new hay; a truss of straw is 36 lbs. 2. A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher. Nares. Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore The stains of ancient arms. Drayton.
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- OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - REDUCEMENT
Reduction. Milton. - GRASSLESS
Destitute of grass. - REDUCE
To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from - REDUCTIVE
Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n. - BEARISH
Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. - BEARWARD
A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak. - BEAR
produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold - BEAR'S-BREECH
See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior. - HINDEREST
Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer. - BANDAGE
1. A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc. 2. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. Zeal too had a place among the - REDUCTIVELY
By reduction; by consequence. - BEAR'S-EAR
A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf. - OTHER
Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer. - BEARDLESSNESS
The state or quality of being destitute of beard. - BEARABLE
Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv. - GRASSPLOT
A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak. - HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See - OTHERNESS
The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness. - GRASS-GROWN
Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - ALEPPO GRASS
One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - ISOTHERMAL
Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram - EEL-MOTHER
The eelpout. - ISOTHERMOBATHIC
Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean. - MOTHER-OF-PEARL
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl. - SEABEARD
A green seaweed growing in dense tufts. - DOWNBEAR
To bear down; to depress. - BLUEBEARD
The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it - MOTHER'S DAY
A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who - WATER GRASS
The water cress. (more info) A tall march perennial grass of the southern United States and the American tropics. Manna grass. The grass Chloris elegans. Velvet grass.