Word Meanings - TRESSURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.

Related words: (words related to TRESSURE)

• LATTERLY
  Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period. Latterly Milton was short and thick. Richardson.
• LATTER-DAY SAINT
  A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.
• LATTERKIN
  A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• BREADTHWISE
  In the direction of the breadth.
• BREADTHLESS
  Without breadth.
• LATTER
  1. Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain. 2. Of two things, the one mentioned second. The difference between reason and revelation, and in what sense the latter
• SIMILARLY
  In a similar manner.
• BORDEREAU
  A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.
• BORDER
  bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board in sense 8. See Board, n., 1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Upon the borders
• BREADTHWAYS
  Breadthwise. Whewell.
• SIMILARITY
  The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features. Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all. Sir W. Hamilton.
• LATTERDAY
  Belonging to present times or those recent by comparison.
• BORDERER
  One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region. Borderers of the Caspian. Dyer.
• LATTERMATH
  The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath.
• SIMILAR
  1. Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like. 2. Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness. 3. Homogenous; uniform. Boyle. Similar figures , figures which differ from
• BREADTH
  1. Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. 2. The quality of having the colors and shadows broad and massive, and the arrangement of objects such as to avoid to great
• BLATTER
  To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• BLATTEROON
  A senseless babbler or boaster. "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• CLATTERINGLY
  With clattering.
• SPLATTERDASH
  Uproar. Jamieson.
• DISSIMILARLY
  In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• FLATTERINGLY
  With flattery.
• SLATTER
  To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful. Ray.
• CLATTERER
  One who clatters.
• SEA-BORDERING
  Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.
• SLATTERNLINESS
  The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.