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Word Meanings - TRESSURED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Provided or bound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a tressure. The tressured fleur-de-lis he claims To wreathe his shield. Sir W. Scott.

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  • 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.
  • SHIELD-BEARER
    Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
  • FLEURON
    A flower-shaped ornament, esp. one terminating an object or forming one of a series, as a knob of a cover to a dish, or a flower- shaped part in a necklace.
  • PROVIDENCE
    A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor. 4. Prudence in
  • WREATHE
    1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser. 2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine. The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular
  • PROVIDORE
    One who makes provision; a purveyor. De Foe.
  • SHIELDDRAKE
    A sheldrake.
  • TRESSURED
    Provided or bound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a tressure. The tressured fleur-de-lis he claims To wreathe his shield. Sir W. Scott.
  • BOUNDING
    Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.
  • TRESSURE
    A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.
  • SHIELDLESS
    Destitute of a shield, or of protection. -- Shield"less*ly, adv. -- Shield"less*ness, n.
  • SCOTTICIZE
    To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
  • PROVIDE
    1. To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare. "Provide us all things necessary." Shak. 2. To supply; to afford; to contribute. Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind,
  • PROVIDENTLY
    In a provident manner.
  • SCOTTISH
    Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
  • BOUNDEN
    1. Bound; fastened by bonds. 2. Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden. This holy word, that teacheth us truly our bounden duty toward our Lord God in every point. Ridley. 3. Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding.
  • WREATHEN
    Twisted; made into a wreath. "Wreathen work of pure gold." Ex. xxviii. 22.
  • FLEUR-DE-LIS
    The iris. See Flower-de-luce. 2. A conventional flower suggested by the iris, and having a form which fits it for the terminal decoration of a scepter, the ornaments of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal
  • ARRANGE
    1. To put in proper order; to dispose in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle. So came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets. Berners. were beginning to arrange their
  • SCOTTISH TERRIER
    See TERRIER
  • HOME-BOUND
    Kept at home.
  • OUTBOUND
    Outward bound. Dryden.
  • COUNTERFLEURY
    Counterflory.
  • UNBOUND
    imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
  • UNBOUNDED
    Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
  • MISARRANGEMENT
    Wrong arrangement.
  • SURREBOUND
    To give back echoes; to reëcho. Chapman.
  • INTERWREATHE
    To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. Lovelace.
  • REBOUND
    1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
  • INWREATHE
    Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton.
  • IMPROVIDENTLY
    In a improvident manner. "Improvidently rash." Drayton.

 

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