Word Meanings - CALENDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly
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1. A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating. 2. One who pursues the business of calendering. My good friend the calender. Cawper.
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- WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - WATERWORT
Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste. - WATER SHREW
Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits. - WATER-TIGHT
So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky. - WATER RAT
The water vole. See under Vole. The muskrat. The beaver rat. See under Beaver. 2. A thief on the water; a pirate. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - WATER CRAKE
The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia. - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - WATER DOG
A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained. - MACHINER
One who or operates a machine; a machinist. - WATER SAIL
A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water. - WATER CLOCK
An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra. - SURFACE LOADING
The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface. - WATERIE
The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds. - WATER BALLAST
Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast. - WATER RAM
An hydraulic ram. - WATER LINE
Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. Note: In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several - REVOLVABLE
That may be revolved. - WATER LOCUST
A thorny leguminous tree which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley. - GRAMME MACHINE
A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - BURRING MACHINE
A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. - BEDCLOTHES
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak. - TERGIVERSATOR
One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion. - HEARSECLOTH
A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.