Word Meanings - POWDERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
a. & n. from Powder, v. t. Powdering tub. A tub or vessel in which meat is corned or salted. A heated tub in which an infected lecher was placed for cure. Shak.
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- CORNLOFT
A loft for corn; a granary. - PLACODERMATA
See PLACODERMI - SALTATORY
Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing. Saltatory evolution , a theory of evolution which holds that the transmutation of species is not always gradual, but that there may come sudden and marked variations. See - CORNIC
Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida). - POWDERY
1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth. - SALTFOOT
A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot. - SALTPETROUS
Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - HEATHER
Heath. Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell , one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather . (more info) Etym: - INFECTIOUSLY
In an infectious manner. Shak. - SALTIGRADE
Having feet or legs formed for leaping. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - CORNEA
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye. - HEATHENISHNESS
The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne. - PLACID
Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay. - SALTATORIA
A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets. - SALTARELLO
A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella. - LECHEROUS
Like a lecher; addicted to lewdness; lustful; also, lust- provoking. "A lecherous thing is wine." Chaucer. -- Lech"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Lech"er*ous*ness, n. - POWDERED
See WALPOLE (more info) 1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder. 2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey. - BESCORN
To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer. - UNSHEATHE
To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war. - UNPLACABLE
Implacable. - SEA CORN
A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsule of certain species of whelks , which resembles an ear of maize. - REINFECT
To infect again. - MONGCORN
See MANGCORN - CLAVICORNES
A group of beetles having club-shaped antennæ. - MISALTER
To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall. - LAMELLICORNIA
A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes. - SEA UNICORN
The narwhal.