Word Meanings - APRONLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without an apron.

APRON MAN
A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic. Shak.
WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
APRONFUL
The quality an apron can hold.
WITHOUTEN
Without. Chaucer.
APRON
nape, F. nappe, cloth, tablecloth, LL. napa, fr. L. mappa, napkin, 1. An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly
WITHOUT
1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our
APRONED
Wearing an apron. A cobbler aproned, and a parson gowned. Pope.
APRON STRING
The string of an apron. To be tied to a wife's or mother's apron strings, to be unduly controlled by a wife or mother. He was so made that he could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives. Macaulay.
APRONLESS
Without an apron.