Word Meanings - AWNING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

awan, awang, anything suspended, or LG. havening a place sheltered 1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. 2. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond

Additional info about word: AWNING

awan, awang, anything suspended, or LG. havening a place sheltered 1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. 2. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

Related words: (words related to AWNING)

• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• CONTINUABLE
  Capable of being continued
• CONTINUANT
  Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound. -- n.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• 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.
• CONTINUITY
  the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• 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.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• CANVASSER
  One who canvasses.
• BEYOND
  1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• RECONTINUANCE
  The act or state of recontinuing.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• DISCONTINUITY
  Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like