Word Meanings - WEBBY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or covered with webs. Bats on their webby wings in darkness move. Crabbe.
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- CRABBER
One who catches crabs. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - DARKNESS
1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - FILLIPEEN
See PHILOPENA - FILLIBEG
A kilt. See Filibeg. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - FILLETING
The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively. - FILLER
One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer. - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - COVERTNESS
Secrecy; privacy. - WEBBY
Of or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or covered with webs. Bats on their webby wings in darkness move. Crabbe. - FILLISTER
1. The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty. Knight. 2. A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top. - COVERER
One who, or that which, covers. - FILL
One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak. - COVERCHIEF
A covering for the head. Chaucer. - COVERTLY
Secretly; in private; insidiously. - COVER
operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing 1. To overspread the surface of with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And - COVERING
Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering - FILLING
Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it. Back filling. See under Back, a. (more info) 1. That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - DISCOVERTURE
A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery. - DISCOVERABLE
Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry. - DISCOVERY
1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next - IRRECOVERABLE
Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless. - UPFILL
To fill up. - DISCOVERER
1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A scout; an explorer. Shak. - RECOVERANCE
Recovery. - COBWEBBY
Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.