Word Meanings - DISPLENISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock.
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- DEPRIVEMENT
Deprivation. - STOCKER
One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc. - STRIPPING
The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required - STOCKWORK
A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories. - STOCK-BLIND
Blind as a stock; wholly blind. - HOUSEWIFE
A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good - HOUSEWARMING
A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson. - STRIP-LEAF
Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing. - HOUSEBOTE
Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote. - HOUSEROOM
Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom. - STRIPLING
A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56. - STOCKADE
A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. 2. An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes. (more info) with estocade; see 1st Stoccado); fr. It. steccata - STRIPPER
One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards. - STOCKY
1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. Addison. Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems. Mrs. H. H. Jackson. 2. Headstrong. G. Eliot. - STOCK-STILL
Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne. - HOUSEWIFELY
Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Sir W. Scott. - HOUSEMAID
A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms. Housemaid's knee , a swelling over the knee, due to an enlargement of the bursa in the front of the kneepan; -- so called because frequently occurring in servant girls who - HOUSEMATE
One who dwells in the same house with another. R. Browning. - STOCKJOBBER
One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers. - HOUSEWRIGHT
A builder of houses. - PACKHOUSE
Warehouse for storing goods. - WAREHOUSE
A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison. - POSTHOUSE
1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office. - HENHOUSE
A house or shelter for fowls. - SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market. - UNSTRIPED
Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped. - TRUGGING-HOUSE
A brothel. Robert Greene. - FULL HOUSE
A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind. - WATCHHOUSE
1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup. - TIRING-HOUSE
A tiring-room. Shak. - GREENHOUSE
A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather. - HOTHOUSE
A heated room for drying green ware. (more info) 1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened. 2. A bagnio, or bathing house. Shak. - BEADHOUSE; BEDEHOUSE
An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors. - WASHHOUSE
An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry. - BEETLESTOCK
The handle of a beetle.