Word Meanings - SLICKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which makes smooth or sleek. Specifically: A kind of burnisher for leather. A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.

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• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• SMOOTH
  1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• LEATHERWOOD
  A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• 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.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• CURVISERIAL
  Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• LEATHERBACK
  A large sea turtle , having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.
• CURVATURE
  The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature , the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• TRICURVATE
  Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• PATTERN
  A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder , devices, in a loom, for
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.