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Word Meanings - HIPPOCRATES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C. Hippocrates' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

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  • SIDESADDLE
    A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
  • ABOUT
    On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
  • MEDICALLY
    In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.
  • SQUARE-TOED
    Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.
  • SQUARELY
    In a square form or manner.
  • ADJACENTLY
    So as to be adjacent.
  • PIECER
    1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
  • GREEK CALENDS; GREEK KALENDS
    A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
  • GREEKLING
    A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.
  • CONICALITY
    Conicalness.
  • WRITER
    1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
  • CLOTHESLINE
    A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
  • GREEKISH
    Peculiar to Greece.
  • SQUARE-RIGGED
    Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
  • SLEEVE
    See THREAD
  • STITCH
    A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance. You have gone a good stitch. Bunyan. In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in
  • FAMOUSNESS
    The state of being famous.
  • PIECEMEALED
    Divided into pieces.
  • LINENER
    A dealer in linen; a linen draper.
  • PIECEMEAL
    1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
  • SAILCLOTH
    Duck or canvas used in making sails.
  • THREE-SQUARE
    Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
  • LACONIC; LACONICAL
    1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or
  • BEDCLOTHES
    Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
  • T SQUARE
    See T
  • INFAMOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
  • SPARPIECE
    The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
  • PLAYWRITER
    A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
  • STORY-WRITER
    1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
  • HEARSECLOTH
    A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
  • BREECHCLOTH
    A cloth worn around the breech.
  • CANTON FLANNEL
    See FLANNEL
  • ROUNDABOUTNESS
    The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
  • BACKSTITCH
    A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
  • DISTRAINER
    See DISTRAINOR
  • DRIFTPIECE
    An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
  • CODPIECE
    A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
  • NECKCLOTH
    A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.

 

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