Word Meanings - BRIDECAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.
Related words: (words related to BRIDECAKE)
- AFTERCAST
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower. - DISTRIBUTIVENESS
Quality of being distributive. - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - ORNAMENTAL
Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne. - FRIENDSHIP
1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no - DISTRIBUTABLE
Capable of being distributed. Sir W. Jones. - AFTERSHAFT
The hypoptilum. - AFTERPIECE
The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. - AFTER DAMP
An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid. - AFTER-NOTE
One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note. - HIGHLY
In a high manner, or to a high degree; very much; as, highly esteemed. - DISTRIBUTIVE
A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral. - AFTERWISE
Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late. - AFTERINGS
The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose. - AFTER
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts - AFTER-EATAGE
Aftergrass. - AFTERGUARD
The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten. - AFTER-DINNER
The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. -- a. - AFTERGAME
A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient. Wotton. Aftergame at Irish, an ancient game very nearly resembling backgammon. Beau. & Fl. - AFTERGRASS
The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath. - CRAFTER
a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman. - THEREAFTER
1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, - INGRAFTER
A person who ingrafts. - WAFTER
1. One who, or that which, wafts. O Charon, Thou wafter of the soul to bliss or bane. Beau. & FL. 2. A boat for passage. Ainsworth. - REDISTRIBUTE
To distribute again. -- Re*dis`tri*bu"tion (-tr, n.