Word Meanings - CHAFEWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The cudweed , used to prevent or cure chafing.

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• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• CHAFFER
  1. To buy or sell; to trade in. He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. Spenser. 2. To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser.
• CHAFER
  1. One who chafes. 2. A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• CHAFFINCH
  A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• CHAFERY
  An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• CHAFEWAX; CHAFFWAX
  Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
• CHAFEWEED
  The cudweed , used to prevent or cure chafing.
• CHAFE
  calfacere, to make warm; calere to be warm + facere to make. See 1. To ecxite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser. 2. To excite passion or anger in; to fret;
• CHAFFERN
  A vessel for heating water. Johnson.
• PREVENTIONAL
  Tending to prevent.
• CHAFFING
  The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.
• CHAFING
  The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing. Chafing dish, a dish or vessel for cooking on the table, or for keeping food warm, either by coals, by a lamp, or by hot water; a portable grate for coals. -- Chafing gear
• CUDWEED
  A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed. (more info) corruption of cottonweed; or of
• PREVENTER
  An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast. Preventer bolts, or Preventer plates , fixtures connected with preventers to reënforce other rigging. -- Preventer stay. Same as Preventer, 3. (more info) 1. One who goes before; one who forestalls or
• PREVENTION
  1. The act of going, or state of being, before. The greater the distance, the greater the prevention. Bacon. 2. Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought. Hammond. Shak. 3. The act of preventing
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• COCKCHAFER
  A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
• ENCHAFE
  To chafe; to enrage; to heat. Shak.
• BURSCHENSCHAFT
  In Germany, any of various associations of university students formed to support liberal ideas, or the organization formed by the affiliation of the local bodies. The organization was suppressed by the government in 1819, but was secretly revived,