Word Meanings - SCRATCHBRUSH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.
Related words: (words related to SCRATCHBRUSH)
- METALOGICAL
Beyond the scope or province of logic. - CLEANSABLE
Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood. - CLEAN-CUT
See CLEAR-CUT - STIFFENER
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat. - CLEANNESS
1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - METALLIC
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic - METALLIFORM
Having the form or structure of a metal. - CLEANING
1. The act of making clean. 2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner. - STIFFENING
1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship. - CLEANLINESS
State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift. - BRUSHWOOD
1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches of trees cut off. - CLEANLY
1. Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith. 2. Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. "With cleanly powder dry their - METALLIFACTURE
The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park. - METALLOGRAPH
A print made by metallography. - METALLOPHONE
An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars. - METALLICLY
In a metallic manner; by metallic means. - METALLICAL
See METALLIC - METALEPTIC
Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. 2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle. - STIFF
Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - TOOTHBRUSH
A brush for cleaning the teeth. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - 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. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - UNCLEAN
1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate - 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 - EEL-MOTHER
The eelpout. - ISOTHERMOBATHIC
Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean. - BIMETALLIST
An advocate of bimetallism.