Word Meanings - TWILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface. (more info) two; akin to AS. twi-, E. twi- in twilight. See Twice, and cf. Tweed,

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• TWEEZERS
  Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.
• TWELVEPENNY
  , Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• TWELFTHTIDE
  The twelfth day after Christmas; Epiphany; -- called also Twelfth-day.
• TWELVEMO
  See DUODECIMO
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• WEAVER
  A weaver bird. (more info) 1. One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. "Weavers of linen." P. Plowman.
• TWELVE
  One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen. Twelve- men's morris. See the Note under Morris. -- Twelve Tables. See under Table. (more info) twelf, twelef, twilif, OS. twelif, D. twaalf, G. zwölf, OHG. zwelif, Icel. t, Sw. tolf, Dan.
• TWEAG
  To tweak.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• DIAGONAL
  Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides. Diagonal bond , herringbone work. See Herringbone, a. -- Diagonal built , built by forming
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• CLOTHIER
  1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.
• SURFACE TENSION
  That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth
• TWICE
  see -wards), twie, AS. twiges, twiwa; akin to twi- two, G. 1. Two times; once and again. He twice essayed to cast his son in gold. Dryden. 2. Doubly; in twofold quantity or degree; as, twice the sum; he is twice as fortunate as his neighbor.
• TWEER
  See TUYèRE
• TWENTY
  twintich, OS. tw, D. & LG. twintig, OHG. zweinzug, G. zwanzig, Goth. 1. One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men. 2. An indefinite number more or less that twenty. Shak. Maximilian, upon twenty respects, could not have been the man. Bacon.
• PRODUCER
  A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
• CLOTHING
  See CARD (more info) 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing
• PRODUCENT
  One who produces, or offers to notice. Ayliffe.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• SATIN WEAVE
  A style of weaving producing smooth-faced fabric in which the warp interlaces with the filling at points distributed over the surface.
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• LORDLINESS
  The state or quality of being lordly. Shak.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• KNOTWEED
  See KNOT
• STEELINESS
  The quality of being steely.
• UNWEAVE
  To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven.
• CHILLINESS
  1. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness. 2. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air. 3. Formality; lack of warmth.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• MELANCHOLINESS
  The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell.
• SMARTWEED
  An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum , which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
• MATWEED
  A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes ; also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit.