Word Meanings - TIPPET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A cape, or scarflike garment for covering the neck, or the neck and shoulders, -- usually made of fur, cloth, or other warm material. Chaucer. Bacon. 2. A length of twisted hair or gut in a fish line. 3. A handful of straw bound together at

Additional info about word: TIPPET

1. A cape, or scarflike garment for covering the neck, or the neck and shoulders, -- usually made of fur, cloth, or other warm material. Chaucer. Bacon. 2. A length of twisted hair or gut in a fish line. 3. A handful of straw bound together at one end, and used for thatching. Jamieson. Tippet grebe , the great crested grebe, or one of several similar species. -- Tippet grouse , the ruffed grouse. -- To turn tippet, to change. B. Jonson.

Related words: (words related to TIPPET)

• 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.
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• GARMENT
  Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.
• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• LENGTHFUL
  Long. Pope.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• LENGTHINESS
  The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• BOUNDING
  Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.
• OTHER
  Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer.
• STRAWED
  imp. & p. p. of Straw.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• JACKSTRAW
  1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• 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
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.