Word Meanings - WASHSTAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
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The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed. - PITCHERFUL
The quantity a pitcher will hold. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - BASINET
See BASCINET - WASHHOUSE
An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry. - WASHBOARD
A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di (more info) 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - PIECER
1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads. - HOLDBACK
1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - WASHSTAND
A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person. - HOLDER-FORTH
One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison. - PITCHER
1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically , the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. Mortimer. - HOLDER
One who is employed in the hold of a vessel. - PIECEMEALED
Divided into pieces. - OTHER
Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer. - WASHY
1. Watery; damp; soft. "Washy ooze." Milton. 2. Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions. A polish . . . not over thin and washy. Sir H. Wotton. 3. Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely - SWASHY
Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - AWASH
Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it. - INHOLD
To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - COPYHOLDER
One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader. - SPARPIECE
The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - HIGH-HOLDER
The flicker; -- called also high-hole. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - BLANCH HOLDING
A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise. - BEHOLDER
One who beholds; a spectator.