Word Meanings - ACORNED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Furnished or loaded with acorns. 2. Fed or filled with acorns. Shak.
Related words: (words related to ACORNED)
- FURNISHMENT
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel. - FILLIPEEN
See PHILOPENA - FILLIBEG
A kilt. See Filibeg. - 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. - LOADSTAR; LODESTAR
A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. Chaucer. " Your eyes are lodestars." Shak. The pilot can no loadstar see. Spenser. - 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. - FILL
One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak. - LOADSTONE; LODESTONE
A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite. - 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 - LOADMANAGE; LODEMANAGE
Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. Chaucer. - FURNISH
Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to - LOADER
One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun. - FILLET
A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied. Note: A fillet of beef is the under side of the sirlom; also called tenderloin. A fillet of veal or mutton is the fleshy part of the thigh. A fillet of fish is - LOAD
The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working. Load line, or Load water line , the line on the outside of a vessel indicating the depth to which it sinks in the water when loaded. Syn. -- Burden; lading; weight; cargo. - FURNISHER
One who supplies or fits out. - LOADING
1. The act of putting a load on or into. 2. A load; cargo; burden. Shak. - FILLIP
Etym: 1. To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger. "You filip me o' the head." Shak. 2. To snap; to project quickly. The use of - LOADSMAN; LODESMAN
A pilot. Chaucer. - FILLED CHEESE
An inferior kind of cheese made from skim milk with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarine or lard, to replace the fat removed in the cream. - SURFACE LOADING
The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface. - RELOAD
To load again, as a gun. - BREECH-LOADING
Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle. - UNLOAD
1. To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast. 2. Hence, to relieve from anything onerous. 3. To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel. - MUZZLE-LOADING
Receiving its charge through the muzzle; as, a muzzle-loading rifle. - UPFILL
To fill up. - UNDERLOAD STARTER
A motor starter provided with an underload switch. - DISFURNISH
To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger. - UNDERFILLING
The filling below or beneath; the under part of a building. Sir H. Wotton. - FULFILLER
One who fulfills. South.