Word Meanings - BROOMSTICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stick used as a handle of a broom.

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• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• STICKING
  a. & n. from Stick, v. Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. -- Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Shak. --
• STICKFUL
  As much set type as fills a composing stick.
• STICKTAIL
  The ruddy duck.
• STICK
  A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used. 6. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab. A stick of eels, twenty-five eels. -- Stick chimney, a chimney made
• HANDLESS
  Without a hand. Shak.
• STICKLEBACK
  Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling,
• BROOM CORN
  A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.
• BROOMSTICK
  A stick used as a handle of a broom.
• HANDLE
  1. To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand. Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh. Luke xxiv. 39. About his altar, handling holy things. Milton. 2. To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to
• STICKINESS
  The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.
• BROOM
  A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, mintue leaves, and large yellow flowers. No gypsy
• BROOMY
  Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom. If land grow mossy or broomy. Mortimer.
• STICKY
  Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious. Herbs which last longest are those of strong smell, and with a sticky stalk. Bacon.
• HANDLEABLE
  Capable of being handled.
• STICK-SEED
  A plant of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.
• STICKIT
  Stuck; spoiled in making. Stickit minister, a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality.
• BROOM RAPE
  A genus of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes
• STICKLE
  freq. of stihten, AS. stihtan: cf. G. stiften to found, to 1. To separate combatants by intervening. When he sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the
• STICKLER
  One who stickles. Specifically: -- One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire. Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey. Sir P. Sidney. Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the
• CHANDLER
  of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
• POKING-STICK
  A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.
• PIG-STICKING
  Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. Tackeray.
• FORESTICK
  Front stick of a hearth fire.
• BUTCHER'S BROOM
  A genus of plants ; esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
• CHOPSTICK
  One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
• MESSAGE STICK
  A stick, carved with lines and dots, used, esp. by Australian aborigines, to convey information.
• CATSTICK
  A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat. Massinger.
• PANHANDLE STATE
  West Virginia; -- a nickname.
• GREEN-BROOM
  A plant of the genus Genista ; dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed.
• CHANDLERY
  Commodities sold by a chandler.
• PANHANDLE
  The handle of a pan; hence, fig., any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho.
• OVERHANDLE
  To handle, or use, too much; to mention too often. Shak.