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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.
  • INFORMITY
    Want of regular form; shapelessness.
  • 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.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • CAPSTONE
    A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
  • DIVERSIFORM
    Of a different form; of varied forms.
  • 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.
  • CLINKSTONE
    An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
  • VARIFORM
    Having different shapes or forms.
  • PREFORM
    To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
  • 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,
  • VILLIFORM
    Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
  • BIFORM
    Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.

 

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