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Word Meanings - CASTLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small castle. Leland.

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  • CASTLEWARD
    See CASTLEGUARD
  • CASTLE
    1. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress. The house of every one is to him castle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose. Coke. Our castle's strength Will laugh
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • CASTLET
    A small castle. Leland.
  • SMALLPOX
    A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
  • SMALL
    sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
  • CASTLERY
    The government of a castle. Blount.
  • SMALLAGE
    A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
  • SMALLY
    In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
  • CASTLEBUILDER
    Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.
  • CASTLED
    Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag. 2. Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls.
  • SMALLNESS
    The quality or state of being small.
  • SMALLS
    See 3
  • SMALLSWORD
    A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
  • CASTLE-GUARD
    A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward. 3. A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • UNCASTLE
    To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.
  • ABYSMALLY
    To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
  • CRADLELAND
    Land or region where one was cradled; hence, land of origin.

 

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