Word Meanings - BATTENING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.

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• NAILLESS
  Without nails; having no nails.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• NAIL-HEADED
  Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail. Nail-headed characters, arrowheaded or cuneiform characters. See under Arrowheaded. -- Nail-headed molding , an ornament consisting of a series of low four-sided
• FURRIER
  A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods.
• FURRY
  1. Covered with fur; dressed in fur. "Furry nations." Thomson. 2. Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils. Dryden. 3. Resembling fur.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• FURRIERY
  1. Furs, in general. Tooke. 2. The business of a furrier; trade in furs.
• FURROWY
  Furrowed. Tennyson.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• FURRING
  Double planking of a ship's side. 3. A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit. (more info) The leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air space, by means of strips of board or
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• NAILER
  1. One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker. 2. One who fastens with, or drives, nails.
• NAILERESS
  A women who makes nailes.
• NAILBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the nails.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• FURROW
  voor, OHG. furuh, G. furche, Dan. fure, Sw. f, Icel. for drain, L. 1. A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow. 2. Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age. Farrow weed a weed which
• NAIL
  the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes. His nayles like a briddes claws were. Chaucer. Note: The nails are strictly homologous with hoofs and claws. When compressed, curved, and pointed, they
• DIRECTLY
  1. In a direct manner; in a straight line or course. "To run directly on." Shak. Indirectly and directly too Thou hast contrived against the very life Of the defendant. Shak. 2. In a straightforward way; without anything intervening;
• HANGNAIL
  A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
• TENAILLON
  A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.
• DOORNAIL
  The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."
• HOBNAILED
  See SHOE
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• BULLEN-NAIL
  A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.
• UNDERFURROW
  To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.
• HOBNAIL
  1. A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes. 2. A clownish person; a rustic. Milton. Hobnail liver , a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections
• AGNAIL
  1. A corn on the toe or foot. 2. An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail.
• WATER-FURROW
  To make water furrows in.
• SNAIL
  A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock. 4. A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect
• TRENAIL
  See TREENAIL
• UNDIRECTLY
  Indirectly. Strype.