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Word Meanings - PRUINOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.

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  • FROSTED
    Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • 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.
  • BLOOMINGNESS
    A blooming condition.
  • BLOOMER
    1. A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and a broad-brimmed hat. 2. A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • BLOOMARY
    See BLOOMERY
  • FROSTILY
    In a frosty manner.
  • FROST-BITTEN
    Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.
  • FROSTING
    1. A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc. 2. A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • BLOOMLESS
    Without bloom or flowers. Shelley.
  • FROSTWORK
    The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
  • FROSTFISH
    The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod. The smelt. A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish valued as a food fish.
  • BLOOMING
    The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
  • COVERTNESS
    Secrecy; privacy.
  • FROSTLESS
    Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.
  • COVERER
    One who, or that which, covers.
  • COVERCHIEF
    A covering for the head. Chaucer.
  • COVERTLY
    Secretly; in private; insidiously.
  • 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.
  • FULL-BLOOMED
    Like a perfect blossom. "Full-bloomed lips." Crashaw.
  • REAPPEARANCE
    A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
  • 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.

 

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