Word Meanings - BASSINET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle. 2. See Bascinet. Lord Lytton.

Related words: (words related to BASSINET)

• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• PLACODERMATA
  See PLACODERMI
• BASKET BALL
  A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• 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.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• PLACIT
  A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn.
• WICKER
  1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. 2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. Chapman. 3. Same as
• PLACOPHORA
  A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BASCINET
  A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor. (more info) bassinet, dim. of OF. bacin, F. bassin, a helmet in the form of a
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like