Word Meanings - CABLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Adorned with cabling. (more info) 1. Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. "The cabled stone." Dyer.

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• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• ADORN
  Adorned; decorated. Milton.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• CABLEGRAM
  A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable. Note:
• ADORNMENT
  An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
• STONEWARE
  A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.
• CABLET
  A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
• STONERUNNER
  The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.
• STONE
  1. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts vii. 59. 2. To make like stone; to harden. O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart. Shak. 3. To free from stones;
• ADORNER
  He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
• STONECUTTING
  Hewing or dressing stone.
• STONEWEED
  Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
• CABLING
  The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.
• STONE-HORSE
  Stallion. Mortimer.
• STONECROP
  Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum acre, which is common on bare rocks in Europe, and is spreading in parts of America. See Orpine. Virginian, or Ditch, stonecrop, an American plant . (more info) 1. A sort of tree. Mortimer.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• VOCABLE
  A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. Carlyle. (more info) fr. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis,
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• PROGNOSTICABLE
  Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.
• IMMEDICABLE
  Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable." Milton.
• INEXPLICABLE
  Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others
• EYESTONE
  Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid,
• MULTIPLICABLE
  Capable of being multiplied; multipliable.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• GALLSTONE
  A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
• EAGLESTONE
  A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.