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.
• INFAMOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
• T SQUARE
  See T
• 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.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• 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.
• 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.