Word Meanings - WAIT-A-BIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any of several plants bearing thorns or stiff hooked appendages, which catch and tear the clothing, as: The greenbrier. Any of various species of hawthorn. In South Africa, one of numerous acacias and mimosas. The grapple plant. The prickly ash.
Related words: (words related to WAIT-A-BIT)
- SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - THORNSET
Set with thorns. Dyer. - STIFFENER
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - HOOKE'S GEARING
Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle. - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - AFRICANISM
A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton. - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - CATCHWORK
A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain. - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - STIFFENING
1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship. - CATCHER
The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, catches. - CATCHWORD
The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing. 3. A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, - SPECIES
A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, - BEARISH
Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. - CLOTHESLINE
A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - SOUTHSAYER
See SOOTHSAYER - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - SCATCH
A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey. - INNUMEROUS
Innumerable. Milton. - BEDCLOTHES
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak. - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - HEARSECLOTH
A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - BEAUCATCHER
A small flat curl worn on the temple by women. - CANT HOOK
A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc. Bartlett. - CONY-CATCH
To deceive; to cheat; to trick. Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.