Word Meanings - BRATTISHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet. (more info) 1. See Brattice, n.

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• CARVOL
  One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.
• SHRINE
  1. A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint. 2. Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like. Too weak the sacred shrine guard. Byron. 3. A place or object hallowed
• CARVE
  1. To cut. Or they will carven the shepherd's throat. Spenser. 2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. Carved with figures strange and sweet. Coleridge. 3. To make or shape by
• CARVEN
  Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall. The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson. A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.
• CARVEL
  1. Same as Caravel. 2. A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. Sir T. Herbert.
• BRATTICE
  A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation. Planking to support a roof or wall.
• PARAPETALOUS
  Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen.
• BATTLEMENT
  fr. batailler, also OF. bastillier, bateillier, to fortify. Cf. One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature,
• OPENWORK
  A quarry; an open cut. Raymond. (more info) 1. Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.
• CARVELBUILT
  Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
• BATTLEMENTED
  Having battlements. A battlemented portal. Sir W. Scott.
• CARVACROL
  A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway .
• PARAPET
  A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like. (more info) guard + petto the breast, L. pectus.
• PARAPETED
  Having a parapet.
• CARVIST
  A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year. Booth.
• CARVENE
  An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.
• CARVER
  1. One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. "The carver's chisel." Dodsley. The carver of his fortunes. Sharp 2. One who carves or divides meat
• CARVING
  1. The act or art of one who carves. 2. A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material. "Carving in wood." Sir W. Temple. 3. The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving
• EMBATTLEMENT
  1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
• ENSHRINE
  To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.
• INSHRINE
  See ENSHRINE
• FORCARVE
  To cut completely; to cut off. Chaucer.