Word Meanings - HAMMER-DRESSED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
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- FACETIAE
Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits. - FACIES
The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment. (more info) 1. The anterior part of the head; the face. - FACILITATION
The act of facilitating or making easy. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAMMER LOCK
A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent. - FACIEND
The multiplicand. See Facient, - STONEBRASH
A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash. - FACUND
Eloquent. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and - 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. - STONEROOT
A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse. - FACTIOUS
1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster. - HAMMERER
One who works with a hammer. - FACTION
One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - FACT
1. A doing, making, or preparing. A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. B. Jonson. 2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. What might instigate - FACINOROUS
Atrociously wicked. Jer. Taylor. -- Fa*cin"o*rous*ness, n. - HAMMER
That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming. Also, a person of thing that - STONE-STILL
As still as a stone. Shak. - CREAM-FACED
White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak. - PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - BAREFACEDNESS
The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - CAPSTONE
A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap. - CLINKSTONE
An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. - MISHAPPEN
To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser. - CRABFACED
Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau & Fl. - GRINDSTONE
A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed, - MOORSTONE
A species of English granite, used as a building stone. - RUBSTONE
A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub. - SPINDLE-SHAPED
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle. - GRINDLE STONE
A grindstone.