Word Meanings - PIPESTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.

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• CARVOL
  One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.
• TOBACCONING
  Smoking tobacco. "Tobacconing is but a smoky play." Sylvester.
• TOBACCONIST
  1. A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco. 2. A smoker of tobacco. Sylvester.
• CARVE
  1. To cut. Or they will carven the shepherd's throat. Spenser. 2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. Carved with figures strange and sweet. Coleridge. 3. To make or shape by
• CARVEN
  Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall. The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson. A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.
• PIPESTONE
  A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.
• CARVEL
  1. Same as Caravel. 2. A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. Sir T. Herbert.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• SLATE-COLOR
  A dark bluish gray color.
• SLATE
  An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist. 2. Any rock or stone having a slaty structure. 3. A prepared piece of such stone. Especially: A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc. A
• CARVELBUILT
  Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
• PIPESTEM
  The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc. Took a long reed for a pipestem. Longfellow.
• CATLINITE
  A red clay from the Upper Missouri region, used by the Indians for their pipes.
• CARVACROL
  A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway .
• TOBACCO
  An American plant of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste. Note: The name is extended to
• CARVIST
  A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year. Booth.
• CARVENE
  An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.
• CARVER
  1. One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. "The carver's chisel." Dodsley. The carver of his fortunes. Sharp 2. One who carves or divides meat
• CARVING
  1. The act or art of one who carves. 2. A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material. "Carving in wood." Sir W. Temple. 3. The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving
• SLATE-GRAY
  Of a dark gray, like slate.
• MISTRANSLATE
  To translate erroneously.
• TRANSLATE
  To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden. 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the
• SEA SLATER
  Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia.
• LEGISLATE
  To make or enact a law or laws. Solon, in legislating for the Athenians, had an idea of a more perfect constitution than he gave them. Bp. Watson .
• FORCARVE
  To cut completely; to cut off. Chaucer.