Word Meanings - WITTS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping. Knight.

Related words: (words related to WITTS)

• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• FREEDSTOOL
  See FRIDSTOL
• FREIGHT
  1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use
• FREQUENTATIVE
  Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n.
• FRETWORK
  Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine.
• FREDSTOLE
  See FULLER
• FREELTE
  Frailty. Chaucer.
• FRENZICAL
  Frantic. Orrery.
• FRESHNESS
  The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
• FRESCO
  1. A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade. Prior. The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries. In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner. A painting on plaster in either
• FRESHET
  1. A stream of fresh water. Milton. 2. A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.
• FREEBOOTER
  One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon. (more info) vrij free + buit booty, akin to E. booty. See Free, and Booty, and
• FREIGHTAGE
  1. Charge for transportation; expense of carriage. 2. The transportation of freight. 3. Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.
• FREE-SPOKEN
  Accustomed to speak without reserve. Bacon. -- Free"-spo`ken-ness, n.
• FREE SILVER
  The free coinage of silver; often, specif., the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio with gold, as at the ratio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• FREEWILL
  Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering. Frewill Baptists. See under Baptist.
• FREE-HAND
  Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free-hand drawing. See under Drawing.
• FREE-DENIZEN
  To make free.
• FRESNEL LENS
  See LENS
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• OVERFREQUENT
  Too frequent.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• AFFREIGHTER
  One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.
• UNFREEZE
  To thaw.
• POCK-FRETTEN
  See POCKMARKED