Word Meanings - BONGRACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat.

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• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• BONNET
  An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds. Hakluyt. 6. The second stomach of a ruminating animal. 7. An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy. Bonnet
• SHADELESS
  Being without shade; not shaded.
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• SHADEFUL
  Full of shade; shady.
• COMPLEXIONALLY
  Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
• BONNET ROUGE
  The red cap adopted by the extremists in the French Revolution, which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch; hence, a revolutionist; a Red Republican.
• PROTECTORIAL
  See PROTECTORAL
• PROJECTURE
  A jutting out beyond a surface.
• PROTECTORLESS
  Having no protector; unprotected.
• PROTECTIVE
  Affording protection; sheltering; defensive. " The favor of a protective Providence." Feltham. Protective coloring , coloring which serves for the concealment and preservation of a living organism. Cf. Mimicry. Wallace. -- Protective tariff ,
• PROTECTIONIST
  One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
• BONNETED
  Protected by a bonnet. See Bonnet, 4 . (more info) 1. Wearing a bonnet. "Bonneted and shawled." Howitt.
• COMPLEXIONED
  Having a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.
• PROTECTIVENESS
  The quality or state of being protective. W. Pater.
• PROJECTOR
  One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. L'Estrange.
• SHADE
  The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above. 8. Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink. White, red, yellow, blue, with their several degrees, or shades
• BRIMMED
  1. Having a brim; -- usually in composition. "Broad-brimmed hat." Spectator. 2. Full to, or level with, the brim. Milton.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• OVERSHADE
  To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.
• BROAD-BRIMMED
  Having a broad brim. A broad-brimmed flat silver plate. Tatler.
• GLENGARRY; GLENGARRY BONNET
  A kind of Highland Scotch cap for men, with straight sides and a hollow top sloping to the back, where it is parted and held together by ribbons or strings. The long silk streamers of his Glengarry bonnet. L. Hutton.
• NIGHTSHADE
  A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna
• SUNBONNET
  A bonnet, generally made of some thin or light fabric, projecting beyond the face, and commonly having a cape, -- worn by women as a protection against the sun.