Word Meanings - DOORSTOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.

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• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• BLOCKISH
  Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n.
• 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
• BLOCKING
  1. The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks. 2. Blocks used to support temporarily.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• BLOCK TIN
  See TIN
• BLOCK SIGNAL
  One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• STRIP-LEAF
  Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• 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.
• RIGHTEOUS
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• SHUTTLEWISE
  Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• TAILBLOCK
  A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
• DISSIMILARLY
  In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.