Word Meanings - CEILING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The inner planking of a vessel. Camp ceiling. See under Camp. -- Ceiling boards, Thin narrow boards used to ceil with. (more info) The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.
Additional info about word: CEILING
The inner planking of a vessel. Camp ceiling. See under Camp. -- Ceiling boards, Thin narrow boards used to ceil with. (more info) The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor. The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.
Related words: (words related to CEILING)
- LINGET
An ingot. - UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - LINGISM
A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - PLANKING
1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - LINNE
Flax. See Linen. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - NARROW
A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone. - UNDERNIME
1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman. - UNDERPROP
To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - INNERVATION
Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs. (more info) 1. The act of innerving or stimulating. - UNDERDELVE
To delve under. - BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
See WORM - COLLINEATION
The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson. - DUCKLING
A young or little duck. Gay. - TOOLING
Work perfomed with a tool. The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey. - MEDULLIN
A variety of lignin or cellulose found in the medulla, or pith, of certain plants. Cf. Lignin, and Cellulose. - SCRAMBLING
Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott. - RIDGELING
A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig, - CLINKSTONE
An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. - TOWELING
Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc. - RECTILINEAL; RECTILINEAR
Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*al*ly, adv. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*ar*ly, adv. - STEELING
The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v. - CHURCHLINESS
Regard for the church.