Word Meanings - DREADNAUGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A fearless person. 2. Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.
Related words: (words related to DREADNAUGHT)
- THICKENING
Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker. - THICK WIND
A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - GARMENT
Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16. - THICK-SKINNED
Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland. - THICKNESS
The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective). - STORMING
from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress. - THICK-WINDED
Affected with thick wind. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - THICKBILL
The bullfinch. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - CLOTHESLINE
A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. - STORMGLASS
A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather. - STORM
A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like. Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging, - GARMENTURE
Clothing; dress. - THICK-SKULLED
Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn. - FEARLESS
Free from fear. Syn. -- Bold; courageous; interpid; valor -- Fear"less*ly, adv. -- Fera"less*ness, n. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - BEDCLOTHES
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak. - HEARSECLOTH
A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - NECKCLOTH
A piece of any fabric worn around the neck. - BROADCLOTH
A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide. - THENCEFROM
From that place. - UNCLOTHED
Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym: