Word Meanings - BONNET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 head , a shark of the southern United States and West Indies. -- Bonnet limpet , a name given, from their shape, to various species of shells . -- Bonnet monkey , an East Indian monkey , with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga. -- Bonnet piece, a gold coin of the time of James V. of Scotland, the king's head on which wears a bonnet. Sir W. Scott. -- To have a bee in the bonnet. See under Bee. -- Black bonnet. See under Black. -- Blue bonnet. See in the Vocabulary. (more info) 1. A headdress for men and boys; a cap. Milton. Shak. 2. A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland. And pbonnets waving high. Sir W. Scott. 3. A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel. 4. Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use; as, A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire. A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc. A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks. A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft. In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.

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• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• LACINIATE; LACINIATED
  Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed. (more info) 1. Fringed; having a fringed border.
• LACONIC; LACONICAL
  1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or
• LACUSTRAL; LACUSTRINE
  Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in them; as, lacustrine flowers. Lacustrine deposits , the deposits which have been accumulated in fresh-water areas. -- Lacustrine dwellings. See Lake dwellings, under Lake.
• LACROSSE
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• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• LACTEOUS
  1. Milky; resembling milk. "The lacteous circle." Sir T. Browne. 2. Lacteal; conveying chyle; as, lacteous vessels.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• LACTEALLY
  Milkily; in the manner of milk.
• LACTEOUSLY
  In a lacteous manner; after the manner of milk.
• LACEDAEMONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lacedæmon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus. -- n.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• LACERT
  A muscle of the human body. Chaucer.
• LACTIFUGE
  A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body.
• DECOYER
  One who decoys another.
• LACTURAMIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an organic amido acid, which is regarded as a derivative of lactic acid and urea.
• LACTAGE
  The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which is made from it.
• LACONISM
  1. A vigorous, brief manner of expression; laconic style. 2. An instance of laconic style or expression.
• LACERATE; LACERATED
  Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge. (more info) 1. Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• PALACIOUS
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• PHYLACTERED
  Wearing a phylactery.
• STICK-LAC
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• INTERAMBULACRUM
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  Implacable.
• PLACODERMATA
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• CLACK
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