Word Meanings - VELVETING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.

Related words: (words related to VELVETING)

• VELVETBREAST
  The goosander.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• VELVETEEN
  A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• VELVETLEAF
  A name given to several plants which have soft, velvety leaves, as the Abutilon Avicennæ, the Cissampelos Pareira, and the Lavatera arborea, and even the common mullein.
• GOODSHIP
  Favor; grace. Gower.
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• GOODS
  See 3
• PIECELY
  In pieces; piecemeal.
• VELVETING
  The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.
• VELVET
  LL. velluetum, vellutum, It. velluto, Sp. velludo; all fr. LL. villutus shaggy, fr L. villus shaggy hair; akin to vellus a 1. A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or
• PIECENER
  1. One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills. 2. Same as Piecer, 2.
• PIECE
  One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn. 6. A castle; a fortified building. Spenser. Of a piece, of the same sort, as if taken from the same whole; like; -- sometimes followed by with. Dryden. -- Piece of eight, the Spanish piaster,
• VELVETY
  Made of velvet, or like velvet; soft; smooth; delicate.
• PIECEWORK
  Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed. The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre. R. Jefferies.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• DRY GOODS
  A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• TIMEPIECE
  A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
• CHIMNEY-PIECE
  A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.
• SEAPIECE
  A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture. Addison.
• SIDEPIECE
  The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.
• APIECES
  In pieces or to pieces. "Being torn apieces." Shak.
• FRONTISPIECE
  The part which first meets the eye; as: The principal front of a building. An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself. (more info) beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons