Word Meanings - NURL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To cut with reeding or fluting on the edge of, as coins, the heads of screws, etc.; to knurl.

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• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• REEDIFICATION
  The act reëdifying; the state of being reëdified.
• FLUTING
  Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron.
• REED-MACE
  The cat-tail.
• FLUTED
  1. Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby. 2. Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• REEDBIRD
  The bobolink. One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Schoenicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler.
• COINSTANTANEOUS
  Happening at the same instant. C. Darwin.
• HEADSTONE
  1. The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone. Ps. cxviii. 22. 2. The stone at the head of a grave.
• FLUTE
  1. To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute. Knaves are men, That lute and flute fantastic tenderness. Tennyson. The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee. Emerson. 2. To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle,
• HEADSTRONGNESS
  Obstinacy. Gayton.
• FLUTEMOUTH
  A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
• REEDED
  1. Civered with reeds; reedy. Tusser. 2. Formed with channels and ridges like reeds.
• HEADSAIL
  Any sail set forward of the foremast. Totten.
• REEDLESS
  Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks.
• KNURLY
  Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.
• KNURLED
  1. Full of knots; gnarled. 2. Milled, as the head of a screw, or the edge of a coin.
• FLUTER
  1. One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist. 2. One who makes grooves or flutings.
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• HEADSHAKE
  A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial. Shak.
• FREEDSTOOL
  See FRIDSTOL
• UNPEDIGREED
  Not distinguished by a pedigree. Pollok.
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.
• SCREED
  A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide. A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat. 2. A fragment;
• JEREED
  A blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights. Byron.
• INTERBREED
  To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.
• CROSSBREED
  1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
• OVERBREED
  To breed to excess.
• UNDECREED
  Not decreed. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym: