Word Meanings - YEOMANLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanlike. B. Jonson. Well could he dress his tackle yeomanly. Chaucer.

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• TACKLE
  The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used. Fall and tackle. See the Note under Pulley. -- Fishing tackle. See under Fishing, a. -- Ground tackle , anchors, cables, etc. -- Gun tackle, the apparatus
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• COULD
  Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.
• YEOMANRY
  1. The position or rank of a yeoman. "His estate of yeomanry." Chaucer. 2. The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders. The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion. Bancroft. 3. The yeomanry cavalry. Yeomanry cavalry,
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• DRESSING
  An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.;
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• YEOMANLIKE
  Resembling, or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanly.
• DRESSY
  Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.
• DRESS COAT
  A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
• BECOMINGLY
  In a becoming manner.
• DRESSMAKING
  The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
• YEOMANLY
  Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanlike. B. Jonson. Well could he dress his tackle yeomanly. Chaucer.
• BECOMINGNESS
  The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
• TACKLED
  Made of ropes tacked together. My man shall be with thee, And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair. Shak.
• SUITABLE
  Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv. Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant;
• DRESS
  The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. Knight. Dress circle. See under Circle. -- Dress parade , a parade in full uniform for review. (more info) 1. That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit;
• BECOMING
  Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• UNTACKLE
  To unbitch; to unharness. Tusser.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• TOP-DRESSING
  The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.
• TENDRESSE
  Tender feeling; fondness.
• UNDERDRESSED
  Not dresses enough.
• MISBECOMING
  Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.