Word Meanings - RUCHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

was formerly made of the bark of trees; cf. W. rhisg, rhisgl, bark, 1. A plaited, quilled, or goffered strip of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets. 2. A

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was formerly made of the bark of trees; cf. W. rhisg, rhisgl, bark, 1. A plaited, quilled, or goffered strip of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets. 2. A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.

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• PLAIT
  of plicare to fold, akin to plectere to plait. See Ply, and cf. Plat 1. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings of the drapery. Addison. 2. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. Polish plait. Same
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• 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.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• TRIMMINGLY
  In a trimming manner.
• STRIP-LEAF
  Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
• QUILL
  1. One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather. 2. A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the
• STRIPLING
  A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• QUILLING
  A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills. One of the rounded plaits or flutings of such a band.
• OTHER
  Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer.
• TRIMMING
  a. from Trim, v. The Whigs are, essentially, an inefficient, trimming, halfway sort of a party. Jeffrey. Trimming joist , a joist into which timber trimmers are framed; a header. See Header. Knight.
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• COQUILLE
  A shell or shell-like dish or mold in which viands are served. The expansion of the guard of a sword, dagger, etc. A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, and named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• SQUILLITIC
  Of or pertaining to squills. "Squillitic vinegar." Holland.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.