Word Meanings - BARLEYCORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A grain or "corn" of barley. 2. Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.
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- GRAINED
Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped, - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - BARLEY-BREE
Liquor made from barley; strong ale. Burns. - WHISKYFIED; WHISKEYFIED
Drunk with whisky; intoxicated. Thackeray. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - LENGTHEN
To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden. - EQUALIZER
One who, or that which, equalizes anything. - AVERAGE
That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc. 2. Etym: A tariff or duty on goods, etc. Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped. - LENGTHFUL
Long. Pope. - THIRDLY
In the third place. Bacon. - LIQUORISH
See SHAK - EQUALIZE
1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely - MEASURER
One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market. - HUMOROUSLY
1. Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. 2. Facetiously; wittily. - LENGTHINESS
The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity. - WHISKY RING; WHISKEY RING
A conspiracy of distillers and government officials during the administration of President Grant to defraud the government of the excise taxes. The frauds were detected in 1875 through the efforts of the Secretary of the Treasury. B. H. Bristow, - GRAINING
The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. (more info) 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting - LIQUORICE
See LICORICE - BARLEYCORN
1. A grain or "corn" of barley. 2. Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky. - GRAINY
Resembling grains; granular. - UNEQUALABLE
Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle. - INGRAIN
1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. -- - INEQUALITY
An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; - IMMEASURED
Immeasurable. Spenser. - CROSSGRAINED
1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon. - ADMEASURE
To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure. - MIGRAINE
See A - FELT GRAIN
, the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight. - REMEASURE
To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax. - ALENGTH
At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer. - OUTMEASURE
To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne.