Word Meanings - NOSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That part of the treadboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence, any like projection, as the projecting edge of a molding.

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• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
  The state of being moldy.
• MOLDER; MOULDER
  One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically , one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.
• MOLD; MOULD
  mulm, OHG. molt, molta, Icel. mold, Dan. muld, Sw. mull, Goth. mulda, prevalent spelling is, perhaps, mould; but as the u has not been inserted in the other words of this class, as bold, gold, old, cold, etc., it seems desirable to complete the
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• STAIRWAY
  A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase. "A rude and narrow stairway." Moore.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MOLDING; MOULDING
  A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface. Moldings vary greatly in pattern, and are generally used in groups, the different members of each group projecting
• STAIRHEAD
  The head or top of a staircase.
• PROJECTURE
  A jutting out beyond a surface.
• TREADBOARD
  See 5
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• STAIR
  1. One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building. 2. A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally
• MOLDABLE; MOULDABLE
  Capable of being molded or formed.
• PROJECTOR
  One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. L'Estrange.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• PROJECTILE
  1. Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force. 2. Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion. Arbuthnot.
• MOLDBOARD; MOULDBOARD
  A follow board. (more info) 1. A curved plate of iron back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing.
• MOLDERY; MOULDERY
  Covered or filled with mold; consisting of, or resembling, mold.
• MOLDWARP; MOULDWARP
  See SPENSER (more info) weorpan to throw up; cf. OD. molworp, G. maulwurf, Icel. moldvarpa,
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• HOOD MOLDING; HOOD MOULDING
  A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• BED-MOLDING; BED-MOULDING
  The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• UNDERSTAIRS
  The basement or cellar.
• TRISERIAL; TRISERIATE
  Arranged in three vertical or spiral rows.
• SMOLDERINGNESS; SMOULDERINGNESS
  The state of smoldering.
• NECKMOLD; NECKMOULD
  A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital. Weale.
• UPSTAIRS
  Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.