Word Meanings - VESPILLO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial. Like vespilloes or grave makers. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to VESPILLO)

• NIGHT-FARING
  Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• NIGHTLY
  At night; every night.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• CARRIBOO
  See CARIBOU
• CARRIABLE
  Capable of being carried.
• NIGHTMAN
  One whose business is emptying privies by night.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• NIGHTLONG
  Lasting all night.
• NIGHTSHADE
  A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna
• GRAVEN
  Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
• NIGHTLESS
  Having no night.
• NIGHTTIME
  The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to Ant: daytime.
• GRAVEYARD
  A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
• CARRIAGE
  carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
• GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
  1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
• GRAVES' DISEASE
  See DISEASE
• GRAVELESS
  Without a grave; unburied.
• BURIAL
  1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff . 2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant
• NIGHT-BLOOMING
  Blooming in the night. Night-blooming cereus. See Note under Cereus.
• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• ALLNIGHT
  Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• MIDNIGHT SUN
  The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer.
• SEVENNIGHT
  A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• FORTNIGHT
  The space of fourteen days; two weeks. (more info) nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also,
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• MIDNIGHT
  The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shak.
• PALGRAVE
  See PALSGRAVE
• PORTGREVE; PORTGRAVE
  In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. Fabyan.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field