Word Meanings - FLUSHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A surface formed of floating threads. (more info) 1. A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - SHODDY FEVER
A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust. - SURFACE LOADING
The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - COARSE
was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - FLOATATION
See FLOTATION - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - FORME
See PATTé - SHODDY
1. A fibrous material obtained by "deviling," or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo. 2. A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy. Note: The great quantity - COMMONLY
1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser. - COARSELY
In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly. - CLOTHESLINE
A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. - FORMEDON
A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished. - FORMAT
The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form. The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. G. H. Putnam. One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little - FORMYL
A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde. Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3. - FORMALIZE
1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - MALCONFORMATION
Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts. - PENNIFORM
Having the form of a feather or plume. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good. - DENDRIFORM
Resembling in structure a tree or shrub. - WELL-INFORMED
Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.