Word Meanings - TAILING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. Gwilt.

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• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• INSERT
  To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper. These
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• BRICKY
  Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust. Spenser.
• PROJECTURE
  A jutting out beyond a surface.
• BRICKWORK
  1. Anything made of bricks. Niches in brickwork form the most difficult part of the bricklayer's art. Tomlinson. 2. The act of building with or laying bricks.
• BRICKKILN
  A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.
• INSERTING
  1. A setting in. 2. Something inserted or set in, as lace, etc., in garments.
• STONEWARE
  A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.
• PROJECTOR
  One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. L'Estrange.
• STONERUNNER
  The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.
• BRICKYARD
  A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.
• STONE
  1. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts vii. 59. 2. To make like stone; to harden. O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart. Shak. 3. To free from stones;
• STONECUTTING
  Hewing or dressing stone.
• STONEWEED
  Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
• 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,
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• 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,
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• GALLSTONE
  A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
• EAGLESTONE
  A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.
• MALM; MALMBRICK
  A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.
• REINSERT
  To insert again.
• CROSS-STONE
  See STAUROTIDE
• KNOCKSTONE
  A block upon which ore is broken up.