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Word Meanings - CHECKLATON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Ciclatoun. 2. Gilded leather. Spenser.

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  • LEATHERWOOD
    A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.
  • GILD
    Etym: 1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." Pope. No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. Pope. 2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor,
  • LEATHERBACK
    A large sea turtle , having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.
  • LEATHERY
    Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.
  • GILDALE
    A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share.
  • GILDER
    One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.
  • CICLATOUN
    A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. Chaucer.
  • LEATHER
    1. The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively. 2. The skin. Note: Leather is much used adjectively in the sense of made of, relating to, or like, leather. Leather
  • LEATHERET; LEATHERETTE
    An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.
  • LEATHERN
    Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. "A leathern girdle about his loins." Matt. iii. 4.
  • LEATHERHEAD
    The friar bird.
  • GILDING
    1. The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold. 2. Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface. 3. Any superficial coating or appearance,
  • GILDEN
    Gilded. Holland.
  • SPENSERIAN
    Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene."
  • LEATHERNECK
    The sordid friar bird of Australia .
  • OVERGILD
    To gild over; to varnish.
  • ENGILD
    To gild; to make splendent. Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak.
  • ELECTRO-GILDING
    The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.
  • DISPENSER
    One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
  • OCTOGILD
    A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing.
  • OVERLEATHER
    Upper leather. Shak.
  • REGILD
    To gild anew.
  • WEREGILD
    The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer. Blackstone. (more info) life + gild payment
  • WHITLEATHER
    The paxwax. See Paxwax. (more info) 1. Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather.
  • BEGILD
    To gild. B. Jonson.
  • WATER GILDING
    The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.

 

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