Word Meanings - WRISTBAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The band of the sleeve of a shirt, or other garment, which covers the wrist.
Related words: (words related to WRISTBAND)
- SHIRT WAIST
A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - SHIRTING
Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts. - GARMENT
Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16. - 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. - GARMENTURE
Clothing; dress. - WRIST
The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus. He took me by the wrist, and held me hard. Shak. (more info) wriust, LG. wrist, G. rist wrist, instep, Icel. rist instep, Dan. & - OTHER
andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second - OTHERNESS
The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - SLEEVE
on, to clothe; cf. OD. sloove the turning up of anything, sloven to 1. The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown. Chaucer. 2. A narrow channel of water. The Celtic Sea, called oftentimes the Sleeve. Drayton. - WRISTLET
An elastic band worn around the wrist, as for the purpose of securing the upper part of a glove. - SLEEVED
Having sleeves; furnished with sleeves; -- often in composition; as, long-sleeved. - COVERSED SINE
The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions. - SLEEVEFISH
A squid. - WRISTER
A covering for the wrist. - OTHERGATES
In another manner. He would have tickled you othergates. Shak. - OTHERWISE
1. In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily. Chaucer. Thy father was a worthy prince, And merited, alas! a better fate; But Heaven thought otherwise. Addison. 2. In other respects. It is said, truly, that - COVERSIDE
A region of country having covers; a hunting country. - OTHERWAYS
See TYNDALE - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - ISOTHERMAL
Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram - EEL-MOTHER
The eelpout. - ISOTHERMOBATHIC
Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean. - MOTHER-OF-PEARL
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl. - MOTHER'S DAY
A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who - STEPMOTHER
The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage. - MOTHERING
A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar. - DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw. - MOTHERLESS
Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children. - FOTHER
fuder a cartload, a unit of measure, OHG. fuodar, D. voeder, and perh. to E. fathom, or cf. Skr. patra vessel, dish. Cf. Fodder a 1. A wagonload; a load of any sort. Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer. 2. See Fodder, a unit of weight.