Word Meanings - CARVEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall. The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson. A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.

Related words: (words related to CARVEN)

• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• CEDARN
  Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
• CARVOL
  One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.
• DOORSTEAD
  Entrance or place of a door. Bp. Warburton.
• DOORSTEP
  The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.
• DOORSTONE
  The stone forming a threshold.
• 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.
• BEECHEN
  Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. "Plain beechen vessels." Dryden.
• DOORSILL
  The sill or threshold of a door.
• CARVE
  1. To cut. Or they will carven the shepherd's throat. Spenser. 2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. Carved with figures strange and sweet. Coleridge. 3. To make or shape by
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• DOORSTOP
  The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.
• BROWNNESS
  The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
• BROWNWORT
  A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
• WROUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Work. Alas that I was wrought ! Chaucer.
• BROWNY
  Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.
• CARVEN
  Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall. The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson. A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.
• IVORYTYPE
  A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype. Knight.
• BROWNIAN
  Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• OUTDOORS
  Abread; out of the house; out of doors.
• ADOOR; ADOORS
  At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak. I took him in adoors. Vicar's Virgil .
• BESCREEN
  To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal. Shak.
• IMBROWN
  To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.