Word Meanings - BETSO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small brass Venetian coin.

Related words: (words related to BETSO)

• BRASS-VISAGED
  Impudent; bold.
• BRASS
  A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing. 3. Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• BRASSICACEOUS
  Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.
• BRASSY
  1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass. 2. Impudent; impudently bold.
• BRASSINESS
  The state, conditions, or quality of being brassy.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• BRASSIERE
  A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• BRASSICA
  A genus of plants embracing several species ad varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage , broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip ; the common turnip ; the rape of coleseed , etc.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• BRASSE
  A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.
• BRASSETS
  See BRASSART
• BRASSAGE
  A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• BRASSART
  Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• VANTBRACE; VANTBRASS
  Armor for the arm; vambrace. Milton. (more info) Armor)
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.