Word Meanings - BREDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A braid. Half lapped in glowing gauze and golden brede. Tennyson.

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• LAPPS
  A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.
• GLOWLAMP
  An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.
• GOLDEN
  1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. 2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. 3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. Golden age. The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of
• LAPPISH
  Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish. -- n.
• GLOWBARD
  The glowworm.
• BRAID
  and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. 2. To mingle, or to bring
• LAPPET
  A small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress. Swift. Lappet moth , one of several species of bombycid moths, which have stout, hairy caterpillars, flat beneath. Two common American species (Gastropacha
• LAPPING
  A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers. Ure. Lapping engine, Lapping machine , A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9.
• GOLDEN-EYE
  A duck , found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America is less common.
• BRAIDING
  1. The act of making or using braids. 2. Braids, collectively; trimming. A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray.
• GOLDEN STATE
  California; -- a nickname alluding to its rich gold deposits.
• GAUZE
  A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze. Gauze dresser, one employed in stiffening gauze.
• GLOWWORM
  A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvæ of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments. Like a glowworm in the night, The which hath
• LAPPONIAN; LAPPONIC
  Laplandish; Lappish.
• LAPPACEOUS
  Resembling the capitulum of burdock; covered with forked points.
• TENNYSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• GLOWER
  to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl. Thackeray. (more info) Etym:
• LAPPIC
  Of or pertaining to Lapland, or the Lapps. -- n.
• GOLDEN-ROD
  A tall herb , bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago. Golden-rod tree , a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.
• GLOW
  1. To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandenscent. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. Pope. 2. To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red
• IMBRAID
  See EMBRAID
• UNBRAID
  To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle.
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• SLAPPER; SLAPPING
  Very large; monstrous; big.
• AGLOW
  In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.
• DEWLAPPED
  Furnished with a dewlap.
• FLAPPER
  1. One who, or that which, flaps. 2. See Flipper. "The flapper of a porpoise." Buckley. Flapper skate , a European skate .
• CLAPPERCLAW
  1. To fight and scratch. C. Smart. 2. To abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold.
• EMBRAID
  1. To braid up, as hair. Spenser. 2. To upbraid. Sir T. Elyot.
• UPBRAID
  twist, weave, or the kindred Icel. bregedha to draw, brandish, braid, 1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.