Word Meanings - LUTESTRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon. Goldsmith.

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• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• PLAINTIFF
  One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
• PLAINT
  A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. Blackstone. (more info) planctum , to beat, beat the breast, lament. Cf. 1. Audible expression of sorrow;
• PLAINLY
  In a plain manner; clearly.
• PLAIN-SPOKEN
  Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden.
• PLAINTLESS
  Without complaint; unrepining. "Plaintless patience." Savage.
• PLAIN-HEARTED
  Frank; sincere; artless. Milton. -- Plain"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• RIBBON
  See PL (more info) 1. A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes. 2. A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or
• PLAINSMAN
  One who lives in the plains.
• RIBBONISM
  The principles and practices of the Ribbonmen. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon.
• STOUTLY
  In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.
• PLAIN-DEALING
  Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing. Shak.
• RIBBONWOOD
  A malvaceous tree of New Zealand, the bark of which is used for cordage.
• PLAIN
  To lament; to bewail; to complain. Milton. We with piteous heart unto you pleyne. Chaucer.
• RIBBONMAN
  A member of the Ribbon Society. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon.
• LADIES' EARDROPS
  The small-flowered Fuchsia , and other closely related species.
• PLAINTFUL
  Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice. "My plaintful tongue." Sir P. Sidney.
• PLAINNESS
  The quality or state of being plain.
• PLAINANT
  One who makes complaint; the plaintiff.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• BLUSTROUS
  Blusterous. Shak.
• ILLUSTROUS
  Without luster.
• CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
• EXPLAIN
  out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear
• CHAPLAINSHIP
  1. The office or business of a chaplain. The Bethesda of some knight's chaplainship. Milton. 2. The possession or revenue of a chapel. Johnson.
• COMPLAINTFUL
  Full of complaint.
• PENEPLAIN
  A land surface reduced by erosion to the general condition of a plain, but not wholly devoid of hills; a base-level plain.
• COMPLAINANT
  1. One who makes complaint. Eager complainants of the dispute. Collier. One who commences a legal process by a complaint. The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law. He shall forfeit one moiety to the use of the town, and
• COMPLAIN
  plangere to strike, beat, to beat the breast or head as a sign of 1. To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or