Word Meanings - VELVET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

LL. velluetum, vellutum, It. velluto, Sp. velludo; all fr. LL. villutus shaggy, fr L. villus shaggy hair; akin to vellus a 1. A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or

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LL. velluetum, vellutum, It. velluto, Sp. velludo; all fr. LL. villutus shaggy, fr L. villus shaggy hair; akin to vellus a 1. A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back. 2. The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth. Cotton velvet, an imitation of velvet, made of cotton. -- Velvet cork, the best kind of cork bark, supple, elastic, and not woody or porous. -- Velvet crab a European crab . When adult the black carapace is covered with a velvety pile. Called also lady crab, and velvet fiddler. -- Velvet dock , the common mullein. -- Velvet duck. A large European sea duck, or scoter . The adult male is glossy, velvety black, with a white speculum on each wing, and a white patch behind each eye. The American whitewinged scoter. See Scoter. -- Velvet flower , love-lies-bleeding. See under Love. -- Velvet grass , a tall grass with velvety stem and leaves; -- called also soft grass. -- Velvet runner , the water rail; -- so called from its quiet, stealthy manner of running. -- Velvet scoter. Same as Velvet duck, above. -- Velvet sponge. See under Sponge.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• ERECT
  1. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc. 2. To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up;
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• 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.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• COTTONADE
  A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• ERECTILITY
  The quality or state of being erectile.
• INFERIOR
  A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another. A great person gets more by obliging his inferior than by disdaining him. South.
• INFERIORITY
  The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• SHORTLY
  1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• INFABRICATED
  Not fabricated; unwrought; not artificial; natural.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.