Word Meanings - TENON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the
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A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk. Tenon saw, a saw with a thin blade, usually stiffened by a brass or steel back, for cutting tenons. Gwilt. (more info) Join.)
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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 - PROJECTMENT
Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon. - CUTTHROAT
One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin. - THICKNESS
The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective). - 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 - PIECER
1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads. - SECURER
One who, or that which, secures. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - 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. - SECURENESS
The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security. - CUTTY
Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark. - PROJECTURE
A jutting out beyond a surface. - AROUND
1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took - PIECEMEALED
Divided into pieces. - THROUGH
thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece - PIECEMEAL
1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope. - MEMBERSHIP
1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - CUTTING
1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or - CUTTYSTOOL
1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister. - UNFRAME
To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden. - MISREMEMBER
To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More. - SPARPIECE
The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt. - STRAW-CUTTER
An instrument to cut straw for fodder. - REINSERT
To insert again. - DRIFTPIECE
An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail. - CODPIECE
A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke. - SWARD-CUTTER
A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower. - REMEMBER
re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See 1. To have come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect; - SCUTTLE
both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod. - NONMEMBERSHIP
State of not being a member. - REMEMBERABLE
Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.