Word Meanings - TURBAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell. (more info) 1. A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap,

Additional info about word: TURBAN

The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell. (more info) 1. A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck. 2. A kind of headdress worn by women.

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• SHELL-LESS
  , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
• COTTONY
  1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
• SCARF
  1. To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf. "My sea-gown scarfed about me." Shak. 2. To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping. Shak.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• LEVANT
  Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
• SHELLER
  One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
• SPIRALITY
  The quality or states of being spiral.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• COTTONADE
  A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• LINENER
  A dealer in linen; a linen draper.
• SHELLPROOF
  Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
• WHOLESALE
  1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
• WOUNDY
  Excessive. Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange.
• COTTON BATTING
  Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.
• WOUNDLESS
  Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. "Knights whose woundless armor rusts." Spenser. may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. Shak.
• GOROON SHELL
  A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• SPOUTSHELL
  Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
• MUSCULOSPIRAL
  Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm.
• SLIT-SHELL
  Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• MASK SHELL
  Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
• SPIRAL
  Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral. Spiral gear, or Spiral wheel , a gear resembling in general a spur gear, but having its teeth cut at an angle with its axis, or so that they form small portions of screws or spirals. -- Spiral gearing,
• RELEVANTLY
  In a relevant manner.
• CONCHO-SPIRAL
  A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. Agassiz.
• SUSPIRAL
  1. A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct. 2. A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.