Word Meanings - PULLICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.

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• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• 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.
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• COTTONADE
  A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
• CHECKLATON
  1. Ciclatoun. 2. Gilded leather. Spenser.
• CHECKERBERRY
  A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen . Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry .
• CHECKROLL
  A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll.
• CHECKAGE
  1. The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list. 2. The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.
• COTTON BATTING
  Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.
• CHECKERWORK
  1. Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials. 2. Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. De Foe.
• CHECKER
  One who checks.
• CHECK
  A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe
• COTTONARY
  Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.
• COTTONWOOD
  An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
• CHECKERED
  1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton. 2. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. This checkered narrative. Macaulay.
• COTTONSEED MEAL
  A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.
• CHECKERBOARD
  A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
• CHECKERS
  A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.
• COTTONOUS
  Resembling cotton. Evelyn.
• COTTON
  and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, 1. A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes
• CASHIER'S CHECK
  A check drawn by a bank upon its own funds, signed by the cashier.
• COUNTERCHECK
  To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.