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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.

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  • 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:

 

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