Word Meanings - HOWELL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.

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• STAGERY
  Exhibition on the stage.
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• STAGECOACHMAN
  One who drives a stagecoach.
• STAGECOACH
  A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
• STAGELY
  Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical. Jer. Taylor.
• STAGEPLAYER
  An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
• UPPER
  Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To
• STAGE DIRECTOR
  One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.
• STAGE FRIGHT
  Nervousness felt before an audience.
• STAGER
  1. A player. B. Jonson. 2. One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience. "You will find most of the old stagers still stationary there." Sir W. Scott. 3. A horse
• STAGEPLAY
  A dramatic or theatrical entertainment. Dryden.
• FURNACE
  1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. Note:
• STAGE MANAGER
  One in control of the stage during the production of a play. He directs the stage hands, property man, etc., has charge of all details behind the curtain, except the acting, and has a general oversight of the actors. Sometimes he is also the stage
• STAGE
  1. A floor or story of a house. Wyclif. 2. An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like. 3. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a
• STAGE-STRUCK
  Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.
• STAGEHOUSE
  A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
• HOSTAGE
  A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before
• BALLASTAGE
  A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
• COSTAGE
  Expense; cost. Chaucer.
• FORESTAGE
  A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. A service paid by foresters to the king.
• SUPPER
  A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal. Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc. (more info) originally
• PERNOT FURNACE
  A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.
• CRUPPER
  1. The buttocks or rump of a horse. 2. A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.
• ASH-FURNACE; ASH-OVEN
  A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.
• CUPPER
  One who performs the operation of cupping.
• SUPPERLESS
  Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed. Beau. & Fl.
• ADJUSTAGE
  Adjustment.