Word Meanings - WANGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to WANGER)

• BRIGHT
  See I
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• CHEEKED
  Having a cheek; -- used in composition. "Rose-cheeked Adonis." Shak.
• CHEEKY
  a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• PILLOW LACE
  Lace made by hand with bobbins on a pillow.
• BRIGHTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe. 2. Acuteness ; sharpness 9wit. The brightness of his parts . . . distinguished him. Prior. Syn. -- Splendor; luster;
• PILLOWY
  Like a pillow. Keats.
• PILLOW
  A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. (more info) 1. Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other
• PILLOWCASE
  A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of white linen or cotton cloth.
• CHEEK
  Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The side of the face below the eye.
• PILLOWED
  Provided with a pillow or pillows; having the head resting on, or as on, a pillow. Pillowedon buckler cold and hard. Sir W. Scott.
• BRIGHT'S DISEASE
  An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved,
• BRIGHTEN
  Note: 1. To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to. 2. To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to. The present queen would brighten her character, if she would
• BRIGHTLY
  1. Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor. 2. With lively intelligence; intelligently. Looking brightly into the mother's face. Hawthorne.
• BRIGHT-HARNESSED
  Having glittering armor. Milton.
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• DOORCHEEK
  The jamb or sidepiece of a door. Ex. xii. 22 .
• EYEBRIGHT
  A small annual plant , formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye.