Word Meanings - CASKET - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. The little casket bring me hither. Shak. 2. A kind of burial case. 3. Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed; as: The body.
Additional info about word: CASKET
1. A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. The little casket bring me hither. Shak. 2. A kind of burial case. 3. Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed; as: The body. . The tomb. . A book of selections. They found him dead . . . an empty casket. Shak.
Related words: (words related to CASKET)
- BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
See WORM - BROKERY
The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe. - BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - BRITTLELY
In a brittle manner. Sherwood. - BRAND IRON
1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron. - BRAZIL NUT
An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell. - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - BRAST
To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - BROID
To braid. Chaucer. - BROIDERER
One who embroiders. - BRUISEWORT
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey. - BRAWNER
A boor killed for the table. - BRACHIOGANOID
One of the Brachioganoidei. - BRITANNIC
Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty. - BRANCHIOSTOMA
The lancelet. See Amphioxus. - BROKEN WIND
The heaves. - BRACTLESS
Destitute of bracts. - BROWNBACK
The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher. - CHARACTER
1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting; - BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - OPPROBRIOUS
1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - CAMBRIC
1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures - BRASIER; BRAZIER
An artificer who works in brass. Franklin. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - TOOTHBRUSH
A brush for cleaning the teeth. - SUBBRONCHIAL
Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds. - CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - OVERBROW
To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.