Word Meanings - BRAIDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of making or using braids. 2. Braids, collectively; trimming. A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• USHERDOM
  The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
• USTULATE
  Blackened as if burned.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• USURY
  1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii.
• TRIMMINGLY
  In a trimming manner.
• USURPANT
  Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• USQUEBAUGH
  of life; uisge water + beatha life; akin to Gr. bi`os life. See 1. A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott. 2. A liquor
• BRAID
  and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. 2. To mingle, or to bring
• USURIOUS
  1. Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person. 2. Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract. -- U*su"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- U*su"ri*ous*ness, n.
• USURER
  1. One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender. If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. Ex. xxii. 25. 2. One who lends money at
• USUFRUCTUARY
  A person who has the use of property and reaps the profits of it. Wharton.
• USURPATURE
  Usurpation. "Beneath man's usurpature." R. Browning.
• USUCAPTION
  The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law. (more info) use; usu + capere to take: cf. usucapio
• TRIMMING
  a. from Trim, v. The Whigs are, essentially, an inefficient, trimming, halfway sort of a party. Jeffrey. Trimming joist , a joist into which timber trimmers are framed; a header. See Header. Knight.
• USURPATORY
  Marked by usurpation; usurping.
• USUFRUCT
  The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance. Burrill.
• ENVELOPMENT
  1. The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides. 2. That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
• MAKE
  A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
• ANGUINEOUS
  Snakelike.
• PROTOGYNOUS
  See PROTEROGYNOUS
• MENISCUS
  A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent.
• PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
  Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
• RIPARIOUS
  Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
• TROUSSEAU
  The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• PALACIOUS
  Palatial. Graunt.
• BUSH
  The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See
• POLYPHYLLOUS
  Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• DESMOGNATHOUS
  Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
• ANTIBILLOUS
  Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
• HORRISONOUS
  Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
• BICUSPID
  One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.
• CARNIVOROUS
  Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• RUSHED
  Abounding or covered with rushes.
• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.