Word Meanings - TURBAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell. (more info) 1. A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap,
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The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell. (more info) 1. A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck. 2. A kind of headdress worn by women.
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- SHELL-LESS
, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs. - COTTONY
1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton. - SCARF
1. To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf. "My sea-gown scarfed about me." Shak. 2. To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping. Shak. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - LEVANT
Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant. - SHELLER
One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller. - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - SPIRALITY
The quality or states of being spiral. - CONSISTORIAN
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. - WHOLENESS
The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness. - WHOLE-HOOFED
Having an undivided hoof, as the horse. - COTTONADE
A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton. - CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We - SHELLAPPLE
See SHELDAFLE - LINENER
A dealer in linen; a linen draper. - SHELLPROOF
Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof. - WHOLESALE
1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for - WOUNDY
Excessive. Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange. - COTTON BATTING
Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes. - WOUNDLESS
Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. "Knights whose woundless armor rusts." Spenser. may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. Shak. - GOROON SHELL
A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell . - VALVE-SHELL
Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. - SPOUTSHELL
Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera. - MUSCULOSPIRAL
Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm. - SLIT-SHELL
Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas. - ROUNDABOUTNESS
The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness. - ABOUT
On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info) - MASK SHELL
Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture. - SPIRAL
Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral. Spiral gear, or Spiral wheel , a gear resembling in general a spur gear, but having its teeth cut at an angle with its axis, or so that they form small portions of screws or spirals. -- Spiral gearing, - RELEVANTLY
In a relevant manner. - CONCHO-SPIRAL
A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. Agassiz. - SUSPIRAL
1. A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct. 2. A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit. - TONGUE-SHELL
Any species of Lingula.