Word Meanings - MELTON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.
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- WOOLEN
1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods. 2. Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper. Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent - COTTONY
1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton. - COMMONER
1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground. - RAISE
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. - RAISED
1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised - VARIETY SHOW
A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show. - RAIS
See REIS - CLOTHESLINE
A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. - COTTONADE
A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton. - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - RAISING
1. The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. 2. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. 3. The operation of embossing sheet metal, - CLOTHESHORSE
A frame to hang clothes on. - COTTON BATTING
Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes. - CLOTHIER
1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes. - RAISER
One who, or that which, raises . - COTTONWOOD
An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States. - COTTONARY
Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne. - CLOTHING
See CARD (more info) 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - LIVRAISON
A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part. - BEDCLOTHES
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak. - HEBRAIST
One versed in the Hebrew language and learning. - FELLOW-COMMONER
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. - MISRAISE
To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - HEARSECLOTH
A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - KARAISM
Doctrines of the Karaites. - NECKCLOTH
A piece of any fabric worn around the neck. - FRAISE
A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. Johnson. - BROADCLOTH
A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.