Word Meanings - BUSHHAMMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.

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• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• HAMMER LOCK
  A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• HAMMERER
  One who works with a hammer.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• FORMIDABLY
  In a formidable manner.
• SQUARE-TOED
  Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.
• FORMICATE
  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• SQUARELY
  In a square form or manner.
• FORME
  See PATTé
• HAMMER
  That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming. Also, a person of thing that
• FORMEDON
  A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• BIFORM
  Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
• VILLIFORM
  Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.