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.
Related words: (words related to PRUINOSE)
- 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.