Word Meanings - CASEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. A window. A casement of the great chamber window. Shak.

Related words: (words related to CASEMENT)

• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• CASEMENTED
  Having a casement or casements.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• CHAMBERER
  1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• CHAMBERED
  Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CASEMENT
  A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. A window. A casement of the great chamber window. Shak.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• CHAMBERMAID
  1. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. 2. A lady's maid. Johnson.
• OPEN
  1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
• OPEN-MOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• STAR-CHAMBER
  An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
• INCASEMENT
  1. The act or process of inclosing with a case, or the state of being incased. 2. That which forms a case, covering, or inclosure.
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• INCHAMBER
  To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.
• DORMER; DORMER WINDOW
  A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.