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Word Meanings - BAIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors. A new black baize waistcoat lined with silk. Pepys.

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  • LINGET
    An ingot.
  • LINGISM
    A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.
  • LINNE
    Flax. See Linen.
  • WOOLEN
    1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods. 2. Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper. Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent
  • BLACK LETTER
    The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
  • BLACKEN
    Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
  • LINAGE
    See HOLLAND
  • LINGUAL
    Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter. Lingual ribbon. See Odontophore.
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • LINNAEA BOREALIS
    The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates.
  • PLAINTIVE
    1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
  • COARSE
    was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
  • LINCHI
    An esculent swallow.
  • LINKS
    A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green. A second links has recently been opened at Prestwick, and another at Troon, on the same coast. P. P. Alexander.
  • LINER
    A thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc., ; a shim. (more info) 1. One who lines, as, a liner of shoes. 2. A vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a line-of- battle ship; a ship of the line.
  • LINOLEIC
    Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically , designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts.
  • BLACK FLAGS
    An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
  • LINGUATULIDA
    See LINGUATULINA
  • BLACK-JACK
    A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
  • COLLINEATION
    The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson.
  • BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
    See WORM
  • DUCKLING
    A young or little duck. Gay.
  • TOOLING
    Work perfomed with a tool. The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey.
  • SCRAMBLING
    Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
  • MEDULLIN
    A variety of lignin or cellulose found in the medulla, or pith, of certain plants. Cf. Lignin, and Cellulose.
  • TOWELING
    Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
  • RIDGELING
    A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
  • CLINKSTONE
    An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
  • RECTILINEAL; RECTILINEAR
    Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*al*ly, adv. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.
  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • STEELING
    The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
  • FRIENDLINESS
    The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
  • TRICLINATE
    Triclinic.
  • INDWELLING
    Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
  • ETHYLIN
    Any one of the several complex ethers of ethyl and glycerin.
  • DELINEABLE
    Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated. Feltham.

 

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