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Word Meanings - SIZING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Act of covering or treating with size. 2. A weak glue used in various trades; size.

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  • TREATMENT
    1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
  • 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.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • TRADESFOLK
    People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
  • TRADESPEOPLE
    People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • TREATABLY
    In a treatable manner.
  • TREAT
    To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure.
  • TREATER
    One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
  • COVERTNESS
    Secrecy; privacy.
  • COVERER
    One who, or that which, covers.
  • COVERCHIEF
    A covering for the head. Chaucer.
  • COVERTLY
    Secretly; in private; insidiously.
  • COVER
    operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing 1. To overspread the surface of with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And
  • COVERING
    Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering
  • COVERAGE
    The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.
  • TRADES-UNIONIST; TRADE-UNIONIST
    A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.
  • COVER-SHAME
    Something used to conceal infamy. Dryden.
  • TREATURE
    Treatment. Fabyan.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • RETREATFUL
    Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
  • ENTREATY
    1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
  • RETREATMENT
    The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
  • MALTREATMENT
    Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
  • DISCOVERTURE
    A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
  • ENTREATFUL
    Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
  • 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.
  • DISCOVERER
    1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A scout; an explorer. Shak.
  • RECOVERANCE
    Recovery.

 

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