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Word Meanings - STRAIT-LACED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Bound with stays. Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced. Locke. 2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. Fuller. 3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.

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  • LACINIATE; LACINIATED
    Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed. (more info) 1. Fringed; having a fringed border.
  • LACONIC; LACONICAL
    1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or
  • BOUNDLESS
    Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
  • OPINIONATOR
    An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
  • LACUSTRAL; LACUSTRINE
    Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in them; as, lacustrine flowers. Lacustrine deposits , the deposits which have been accumulated in fresh-water areas. -- Lacustrine dwellings. See Lake dwellings, under Lake.
  • LACROSSE
    A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
  • LACTOSCOPE
    An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
  • LACTEOUS
    1. Milky; resembling milk. "The lacteous circle." Sir T. Browne. 2. Lacteal; conveying chyle; as, lacteous vessels.
  • SCOPELINE
    Scopeloid.
  • LACTEALLY
    Milkily; in the manner of milk.
  • LACTEOUSLY
    In a lacteous manner; after the manner of milk.
  • STIFFENER
    One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
  • STRICT
    Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
  • SHAPE
    is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
  • LACEDAEMONIAN
    Of or pertaining to Lacedæmon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus. -- n.
  • LACERT
    A muscle of the human body. Chaucer.
  • LACTIFUGE
    A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body.
  • STRAIT
    A variant of Straight.
  • LACTURAMIC
    Pertaining to, or designating, an organic amido acid, which is regarded as a derivative of lactic acid and urea.
  • LACTAGE
    The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which is made from it.
  • HOME-BOUND
    Kept at home.
  • PALACIOUS
    Palatial. Graunt.
  • MALACOSTOMOUS
    Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
  • PHYLACTERED
    Wearing a phylactery.
  • OUTBOUND
    Outward bound. Dryden.
  • HAEMATOSCOPE
    A hæmoscope.
  • MISHAPPEN
    To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
  • STICK-LAC
    See LAC
  • INTERAMBULACRUM
    In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum. (more info) Interambulacrums
  • INTERLACE
    To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches
  • UNPLACABLE
    Implacable.
  • PLACODERMATA
    See PLACODERMI
  • INTERAMBULACRAL
    Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.
  • FRANKFORT BLACK
    . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
  • CLACK
    MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the

 

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