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Word Meanings - WAINSCOTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel. 2. The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork.

Related words: (words related to WAINSCOTING)

  • LINGET
    An ingot.
  • LINGISM
    A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.
  • LINNE
    Flax. See Linen.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • LINAGE
    See HOLLAND
  • LINGUAL
    Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter. Lingual ribbon. See Odontophore.
  • LINNAEA BOREALIS
    The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates.
  • LINCHI
    An esculent swallow.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • LINKS
    A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green. A second links has recently been opened at Prestwick, and another at Troon, on the same coast. P. P. Alexander.
  • LINER
    A thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc., ; a shim. (more info) 1. One who lines, as, a liner of shoes. 2. A vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a line-of- battle ship; a ship of the line.
  • OCCUPATION
    1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
  • LINOLEIC
    Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically , designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts.
  • LINGUATULIDA
    See LINGUATULINA
  • PANELWORK
    Wainscoting.
  • HOUSEWIFE
    A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • HOUSEWARMING
    A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.
  • LINGERING
    1. Delaying. 2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.
  • LINSEED
    when oil is expressed. -- Linseed meal, linseed cake reduced to powder. -- Linseed oil, oil obtained by pressure from flaxseed.
  • COLLINEATION
    The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson.
  • BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
    See WORM
  • DUCKLING
    A young or little duck. Gay.
  • TOOLING
    Work perfomed with a tool. The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey.
  • MEDULLIN
    A variety of lignin or cellulose found in the medulla, or pith, of certain plants. Cf. Lignin, and Cellulose.
  • SCRAMBLING
    Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
  • RIDGELING
    A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
  • CLINKSTONE
    An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
  • TOWELING
    Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
  • RECTILINEAL; RECTILINEAR
    Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*al*ly, adv. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.
  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • STEELING
    The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
  • IMPANELMENT
    The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.
  • TRICLINATE
    Triclinic.
  • FRIENDLINESS
    The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
  • INDWELLING
    Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
  • DELINEABLE
    Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated. Feltham.

 

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