Word Meanings - BLANKET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic. 3. A streak or layer of blubber in whales. Note: The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare. Nares.

Additional info about word: BLANKET

A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic. 3. A streak or layer of blubber in whales. Note: The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare. Nares. Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, "Hold, hold!" Shak. Blanket sheet, a newspaper of folio size. -- A wet blanket, anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or discour (more info) or shirt, the blanket of a printing press; prop. white woolen stuff, dim. of blanc white; blanquette a kind of white pear, fr. blanc 1. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.

Related words: (words related to BLANKET)

• WOOLEN
  1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods. 2. Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper. Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent
• FIGURE
  1. To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court. Sociable, hospitable, eloquent, admired, figuring away brilliantly. M. Arnold. 2. To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• LAYERING
  A propagating by layers. Gardner.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• STREAKY
  See COWPER
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• TYMPANY
  A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites. Fuller. 2. Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. "Thine 's a tympany of sense." Dryden. A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence. De Quincey.
• TYMPANIZE
  To drum. Coles.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• BLUBBERY
  1. Swollen; protuberant. 2. Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.
• NARES
  The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.
• PIECE
  1. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out. Shak. 2. To unite; to join; to combine. Fuller. His adversaries . . . pieced themselves together in a joint opposition
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
• STREAKED
  1. Marked or variegated with stripes. 2. Uncomfortable; out of sorts.
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• ELASTIC
  1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• WAYLAYER
  One who waylays another.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• UNELASTICITY
  Inelasticity.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
• BROADCLOTH
  A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
• UNCLOTHED
  Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.