Word Meanings - TEASPOON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.

Related words: (words related to TEASPOON)

• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• SIPPLING
  Sipping often. "Taken after a sippling sort." Holland.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• COFFEEPOT
  A covered pot im which coffee is prepared,
• COFFEEMAN
  One who keeps a coffeehouse. Addison.
• SPOONFLOWER
  The yautia.
• OTHER
  andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• STIRRING
  Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life. A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had gone before it. Southey. Syn. -- Animating; arousing;
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SPOON
  Dan. spaan, Sw. spån, Icel. spánn, spónn, a chip, a spoon. sq. 1. An implement consisting of a small bowl with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food. "Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend," thus
• STIRRAGE
  The act of stirring; stir; commotion. T. Granger.
• SPOONFUL
  1. The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful. 2. Hence, a small quantity. Arbuthnot.
• SPOONILY
  In a spoony manner.
• SIPPET
  A small sop; a small, thin piece of toasted bread soaked in milk, broth, or the like; a small piece of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing. Your sweet sippets in widows' houses. Milton.
• OTHERGATES
  In another manner. He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.
• SPOONWOOD
  The mountain laurel .
• SPOONWORM
  A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike probiscis.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• TEASPOONFUL
  As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• TEASPOON
  A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• MOTHERING
  A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.