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Word Meanings - ABATVOIX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.

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  • SOUNDER
    One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
  • SOUNDLESS
    Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
  • PULPITED
    Placed in a pulpit. Sit . . . at the feet of a pulpited divine. Milton.
  • SOUNDLY
    In a sound manner.
  • PULPITER
    A preacher.
  • PULPITISH
    Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching. Chalmers.
  • SOUNDNESS
    The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
  • PULPITICAL
    Of or pertaining to the pulpit; suited to the pulpit. -- Pul*pit"ic*al*ly, adv. Chesterfield.
  • SOUNDING BALLOON
    An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aƫronautic purposes.
  • SOUND-BOARD
    A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
  • BOARDER
    One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship. Totten. (more info) 1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
  • SOUNDING-BOARD
    A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
  • ROSTRUM
    The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms
  • SOUNDABLE
    Capable of being sounded.
  • PULPITRY
    The teaching of the pulpit; preaching. " Mere pulpitry." Milton.
  • BOARDING
    The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose. Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake. 2. The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering
  • SOUNDAGE
    Dues for soundings.
  • PULPITEER
    One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called in contempt. Howell. We never can think it sinful that Burns should have been humorous on such a pulpiteer. Prof. Wilson.
  • SOUND
    The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
  • PULPIT
    1. An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching. I stand like a clerk in my pulpit. Chaucer. 2. The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching. I say the pulpit (in the sober
  • HIGH-SOUNDING
    Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
  • RESOUND
    resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
  • SIDEBOARD
    A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
  • WEATHERBOARDING
    The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
  • SPRINGBOARD
    An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
  • CHESSBOARD
    The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard. Note: The chessboard and the checkerboard are alike.
  • ABOARD
    On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. 2. Alongside; as, close aboard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land
  • WASTEBOARD
    See 3
  • 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
  • SCALEBOARD
    A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
  • MISSOUND
    To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
  • VERGEBOARD
    The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof , and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.
  • COURT-CUPBOARD
    A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
  • TAILBOARD
    The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.
  • FOOTBOARD
    1. A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet; as: The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive. The foot-rest of a coachman's box. 2. A board forming the foot of a bedstead. 3. A treadle.

 

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