Word Meanings - BREASTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a breast; -- used in composition with qualifying words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single-breasted coat. The close minister is buttoned up, and the brave officer open- breasted, on these occasions. Spectator.

Related words: (words related to BREASTED)

• BUTTONHOLE
  The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• LITERALNESS
  The quality or state of being literal; literal import.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• SPECTATORSHIP
  1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
• BUTTONY
  Ornamented with a large number of buttons. "The buttony boy." Thackeray. "My coat so blue and buttony." W. S. Gilbert.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• LITERALIST
  One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.
• LITERALLY
  1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
• BREASTWHEEL
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
• SINGLE-ACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• BRAVENESS
  The quality of state or being brave.
• BREASTWORK
  A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• SINGLE-HANDED
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• BILITERALISM
  The property or state of being biliteral.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• ILLITERAL
  Not literal. B. Dawson.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• ALLITERAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
• VELVETBREAST
  The goosander.
• REDBREAST
  The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish. (more info) The European robin. The American robin. See Robin. The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.