Word Meanings - STEPSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.
Related words: (words related to STEPSTONE)
- ENTERPARLANCE
Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward. - ENTERPRISER
One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward. - STONEBRASH
A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash. - ENTERDEAL
Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser. - STONEROOT
A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse. - HOUSEWIFE
A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good - ENTERPRISE
1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak. - ENTEROLITH
An intestinal concretion. - ENTERPLEAD
See INTERPLEAD - HOUSEWARMING
A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson. - STAIRWAY
A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase. "A rude and narrow stairway." Moore. - HOUSEBOTE
Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote. - STONE-STILL
As still as a stone. Shak. - ENTERTAINER
One who entertains. - ENTEROTOMY
Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia. - BEFORETIME
Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5. - HOUSEROOM
Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom. - STAIRHEAD
The head or top of a staircase. - STONE-BLIND
As blind as a stone; completely blind. - HOUSEWIFELY
Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Sir W. Scott. - 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. - MESENTERY
The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum - CLINKSTONE
An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. - CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge. - 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, - PACKHOUSE
Warehouse for storing goods. - WAREHOUSE
A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison. - POSTHOUSE
1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office. - MOORSTONE
A species of English granite, used as a building stone. - RUBSTONE
A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub. - HENHOUSE
A house or shelter for fowls. - GRINDLE STONE
A grindstone. - SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market. - TRUGGING-HOUSE
A brothel. Robert Greene. - 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,