Word Meanings - NETTLES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting. Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams. Reef points.

Related words: (words related to NETTLES)

• SLOW
  A moth. Rom. of R.
• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• SLAPE
  Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical. Slape ale, plain ale, as opposed to medicated or mixed ale.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• SLUBBERDEGULLION
  A mean, dirty wretch.
• SLOUGHING
  The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• SLAW; SLAWEN
  p. p. of Slee, to slay. With a sword drawn out he would have slaw himself. Wyclif (Acts xvi.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• SLIMNESS
  The quality or state of being slim.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• SLIVE
  To cut; to split; to separate. Holland.
• SLEDDING
  1. The act of transporting or riding on a sled. 2. The state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• SLUMP
  The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
• SCINTILLOUSLY
  In a scintillant manner.
• GRISLY
  Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible,
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• TUSSLE
  To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• LORDLINESS
  The state or quality of being lordly. Shak.