Word Meanings - LINTEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.

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• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• STRENGTHFUL
  Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.
• HORIZONTALLY
  In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• SPANNISHING
  The full blooming of a flower. Rom. of R.
• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• FRACTURE
  The breaking of a bone. (more info) 1. The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
• HORIZONTAL
  1. Pertaining to, or near, the horizon. "Horizontal misty air." Milton. 2. Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface. 3. Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance. Horizontal drill,
• OPEN
  1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
• OPEN-MOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• CARRYK
  A carack. Chaucer.
• MEMBERSHIP
  1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society.
• HORIZONTALITY
  The state or quality of being horizontal. Kirwan.
• CROSSWISE
  In the form of a cross; across; transversely. Longfellow.
• STRENGTHENER
  One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.
• WEIGHT
  The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. Atomic weight. See under Atomic, and cf. Element. -- Dead weight, Feather weight, Heavy weight, Light weight, etc. See under Dead, Feather, etc. -- Weight of
• STRENGTH
  1. The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
• RESISTANT
  Making resistance; resisting. -- n.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• REMEMBER
  re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See 1. To have come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect;
• UNRESISTED
  1. Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley. 2. Resistless; as, unresisted fate. Pope.
• NONMEMBERSHIP
  State of not being a member.
• REMEMBERABLE
  Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.
• SCARRY
  Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
• FOREREMEMBERED
  Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.