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Word Meanings - TRAPDOOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.

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  • OPENNESS
    The quality or state of being open.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • LIFT
    The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
  • 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.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • OPEN SEA
    A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • COVERTNESS
    Secrecy; privacy.
  • OPEN
    1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
  • OPEN-MOUTHED
    Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
  • COVERER
    One who, or that which, covers.
  • FLOORHEADS
    The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
  • FLOORAGE
    Floor space.
  • FLOORWALKER
    One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
  • COVERCHIEF
    A covering for the head. Chaucer.
  • COVERTLY
    Secretly; in private; insidiously.
  • SLIDE
    To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound. 7. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. With good hope let he sorrow slide. Chaucer. With a calm carelessness letting everything slide. Sir P. Sidney.
  • COVER
    operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing 1. To overspread the surface of with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And
  • SLIDDER
    To slide with interruption. Dryden.
  • COVERING
    Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering
  • PROPENE
    See PROPYLENE
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • BACKSLIDING
    Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.
  • PROPENSE
    Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
  • DISCOVERTURE
    A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
  • DISCOVERABLE
    Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
  • DISCOVERY
    1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
  • IRRECOVERABLE
    Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless.
  • SCOLOPENDRINE
    Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.
  • TWOPENNY
    Of the value of twopence.
  • PROPENSION
    The quality or state of being propense; propensity. M. Arnold. Your full consent Gave wings to my propension. Shak.
  • DISCOVERER
    1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A scout; an explorer. Shak.
  • RECOVERANCE
    Recovery.

 

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