Word Meanings - HEREFORD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.

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• BREVIARY
  summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• BREWER
  One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• WORKMANSHIP
  1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• QUALITY
  1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest
• BREQUET CHAIN
  A watch-guard.
• WORKBAG
  A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.
• BRETFUL
  Brimful. Chaucer.
• BRENNAGE
  A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.
• WORKBENCH
  A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
• BREVITY
  1. Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life. 2. Contraction into few words; conciseness. Brevity is the soul of wit. Shak. This argument is stated by St. John with his usual elegant brevity and simplicity.
• BREASTWHEEL
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
• BREVIATE
  1. A short compend; a summary; a brief statement. I omit in this breviate to rehearse. Hakluyt. The same little breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity. Bp. Porteus. 2. A lawyer's brief. Hudibras.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• ROCKWORK
  Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• LIBRETTO
  A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves.
• JOURNEYWORK
  Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• FRETWORK
  Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine.
• SABRE
  See SABER
• RUBBLEWORK
  Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• SPANKING BREEZE
  a strong breeze.
• TIMBREL
  A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity. Miriam . . . took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex. xv. 20. (more info) typmanum, Gr. tabl a drum; cf. Per. tambal
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.