Word Meanings - SIDEBOARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.

Related words: (words related to SIDEBOARD)

• DINGEY; DINGY; DINGHY
  1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. Malcom. 2. A ship's smallest boat.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• TABLER
  1. One who boards. 2. One who boards others for hire. B. Jonson.
• SIDEBOARD
  A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
• TABLEAU VIVANT
  See 2
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• TABLEMAN
  A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. Bacon.
• DINGDONG THEORY
  The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first
• DINNERLY
  Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley.
• DINSOME
  Full of din. Burns.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• DINER-OUT
  One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company. A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate. Byron.
• DIFFUSIVENESS
  The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity. The fault that I find with a modern legend, it its diffusiveness. Addison.
• DINORNIS
  A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa.
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• SMELLING
  1. The act of one who smells. 2. The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell. Locke. Smelling bottle, a small bottle filled with something suited to stimulate the sense of smell, or to remove faintness, as spirits of ammonia.
• DINAR
  1. A petty money of accounts of Persia. 2. An ancient gold coin of the East.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• FRAGRANT
  fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;
• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• IMPALATABLE
  Unpalatable.
• APTITUDINAL
  Suitable; fit.
• EXCEEDING
  More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• PIPERIDINE
  An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.
• QUINOIDINE
  A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids.
• HEADING
  A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. (more info) 1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head. 2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of
• UNWARRANTABLE
  Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• ALDINE
  An epithet applied to editions which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.