Word Meanings - DOUGH-FACED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Easily molded; pliable.

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• MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
  The state of being moldy.
• MOLDER; MOULDER
  One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically , one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.
• MOLD; MOULD
  mulm, OHG. molt, molta, Icel. mold, Dan. muld, Sw. mull, Goth. mulda, prevalent spelling is, perhaps, mould; but as the u has not been inserted in the other words of this class, as bold, gold, old, cold, etc., it seems desirable to complete the
• PLIABLE
  1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be
• MOLDING; MOULDING
  A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface. Moldings vary greatly in pattern, and are generally used in groups, the different members of each group projecting
• MOLDABLE; MOULDABLE
  Capable of being molded or formed.
• MOLDBOARD; MOULDBOARD
  A follow board. (more info) 1. A curved plate of iron back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing.
• EASILY
  1. With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen. 2. Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily. Sir W. Temple. 3. Readily;
• MOLDERY; MOULDERY
  Covered or filled with mold; consisting of, or resembling, mold.
• MOLDWARP; MOULDWARP
  See SPENSER (more info) weorpan to throw up; cf. OD. molworp, G. maulwurf, Icel. moldvarpa,
• MOLD
  A spot; a blemish; a mole. Spenser.
• MOLDY; MOULDY
  Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.
• HOOD MOLDING; HOOD MOULDING
  A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• BED-MOLDING; BED-MOULDING
  The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.
• COMPLIABLE
  Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.
• SMOLDERINGNESS; SMOULDERINGNESS
  The state of smoldering.
• NECKMOLD; NECKMOULD
  A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital. Weale.
• UNEASILY
  In an uneasy manner.
• SMOLDERING; SMOULDERING
  Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead. Some evil chance Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze. Tennyson.
• HEADMOLD SHOT; HEADMOULD SHOT
  An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures. Dunglison.
• SMOLDER; SMOULDER
  1. To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion. The smoldering dust did round about him smoke. Spenser. 2. To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
• IMMOLD; IMMOULD
  To mold into shape, or form. G. Fletcher.
• GREASILY
  , adv. 1. In a greasy manner. 2. In a gross or indelicate manner. You talk greasily; your lips grow foul. Shak.
• UNMOLD; UNMOULD
  To change the form of; to reduce from any form. "Unmolding reason's mintage." Milton.