Word Meanings - CASTLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A small castle. Leland.
Related words: (words related to CASTLET)
- 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.