Word Meanings - CRESSET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. Knight. (more info) torch; perh. of Dutch or German origin, and akin to E. cruse, F. 1. An open frame or basket of iron, filled

Additional info about word: CRESSET

A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. Knight. (more info) torch; perh. of Dutch or German origin, and akin to E. cruse, F. 1. An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions. Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus. Milton. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. Wordsworth.

Related words: (words related to CRESSET)

• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• BASKET BALL
  A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• FILLIPEEN
  See PHILOPENA
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• FILLIBEG
  A kilt. See Filibeg.
• GERMANIZATION
  The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• FILLETING
  The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• FILLER
  One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer.
• CHARRE
  See 17
• CRUSET
  A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• ORIGINANT
  Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• FILLISTER
  1. The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty. Knight. 2. A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.
• GERMANISM
  1. An idiom of the German language. 2. A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. J. W. Alexander.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• CHAR; CHARR
  One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout is sometimes called a char.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.