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Word Meanings - OSIERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks. Collins.

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  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • ADORNINGLY
    By adorning; decoratively.
  • ADORNATION
    Adornment.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • OSIERED
    Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks. Collins.
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • COVERTNESS
    Secrecy; privacy.
  • ADORNMENT
    An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
  • COVERER
    One who, or that which, covers.
  • OSIER
    A kind of willow growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow. One of the long, pliable twigs of this
  • COVERCHIEF
    A covering for the head. Chaucer.
  • COVERTLY
    Secretly; in private; insidiously.
  • COVER
    operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing 1. To overspread the surface of with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And
  • COVERING
    Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering
  • ADORNER
    He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
  • COVERAGE
    The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.
  • COVER-SHAME
    Something used to conceal infamy. Dryden.
  • COVERED
    Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden. Covered way , a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around
  • COVERSED SINE
    The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • DISCOVERTURE
    A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
  • CROSIERED
    Bearing a crosier.
  • DISCOVERABLE
    Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
  • DISCOVERY
    1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
  • IRRECOVERABLE
    Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless.
  • DISCOVERER
    1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A scout; an explorer. Shak.
  • RECOVERANCE
    Recovery.
  • INDISCOVERY
    Want of discovery.

 

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