Word Meanings - SUITING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
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- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - CLOTHESLINE
A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. - ENTIRELY
1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh. 2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely. To highest God entirely pray. Spenser. - CLOTHESHORSE
A frame to hang clothes on. - MAKED
Made. Chaucer. - MAKE-UP
The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward. - CLOTHIER
1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes. - MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. - CLOTHING
See CARD (more info) 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing - ENTIRE
A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer. "Foker's Entire." Thackeray. (more info) 1. Entirely. "Too long to print in entire." Thackeray. - MAKEWEIGHT
That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap. - CLOTHESPIN
A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line. - MAKE-BELIEVE
A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold. - MAKARON
See 2 - MAKING-UP
1. The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof. 2. The act of becoming reconciled or friendly. - ENTIRETY
1. The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest. Blackstone. 2. That which is entire; the whole. Bacon. - MAKI
A lemur. See Lemur. - ENTIRENESS
1. The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge. This same entireness or completeness. Trench. 2. Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. Entireness in preaching the gospel. - MAKE-BELIEF
A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - BEDCLOTHES
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - HEARSECLOTH
A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - NECKCLOTH
A piece of any fabric worn around the neck. - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n. - WIDOW-MAKER
One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak. - BROADCLOTH
A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide. - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - UNCLOTHED
Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym: - HAYMAKING
The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay. - CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum. - SADDLECLOTH
A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.