Word Meanings - SLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist. 2. Any rock or stone having a slaty structure. 3. A prepared piece of such stone. Especially: A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc. A

Additional info about word: SLATE

An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist. 2. Any rock or stone having a slaty structure. 3. A prepared piece of such stone. Especially: A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc. A tablet for writing upon. 4. An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes. 5. A thin plate of any material; a flake. (more info) fr. OF. esclater to shiver, to chip, F. éclater, fr. OHG. sliezen to tear, slit, split, fr. slizan to slit, G. schleissen. See Slit, v.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• SCHISTIC
  Schistose.
• 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.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• READILY
  1. In a ready manner; quickly; promptly. Chaucer. 2. Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully. How readily we wish time spent revoked! Cowper.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• PREPARATIVELY
  By way of preparation.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• ROOFER
  One who puts on roofs.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• WOODRUFF; WOODROOF
  A little European herb having a pleasant taste. It is sometimes used for flavoring wine. See Illust. of Whorl.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• EYESTONE
  Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid,
• UNROOF
  To strip off the roof or covering of, as a house. Shak.