Word Meanings - PILLOWCASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of white linen or cotton cloth.

Related words: (words related to PILLOWCASE)

• WHITECAP
  The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• WHITE-EAR
  The wheatear.
• 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.
• 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.
• WHITEBLOW
  See WHITLOW
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• WHITEWING
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
• WHITEWALL
  The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.
• WHITE MUSTARD
  A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
• WHITE-WATER
  A dangerous disease of sheep.
• WHITETHROAT
  Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat .
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• WHITEBILL
  The American coot.
• COTTONADE
  A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• HEPPELWHITE
  Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.