Word Meanings - COQUILLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A shell or shell-like dish or mold in which viands are served. The expansion of the guard of a sword, dagger, etc. A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, and named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.
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- SHELL-LESS
, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs. - RUCHING
A ruche, or ruches collectively. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - NAMELESSLY
In a nameless manner. - GUARDIAN
One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz., - SERVING
a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant, - GUARDANT
A guardian. Shak. - GUARDIANSHIP
The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch. - NAMABLE
Capable of being named. - FULL HOUSE
A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind. - FULLAM
A false die. See Fulham. - GUARDIANESS
A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl. - SERVO-MOTOR
A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve - SERVILELY
In a servile manner; slavishly. - GUARDIANLESS
Without a guardian. Marston. - GATHER
1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. When small humors gather to a gout. Pope. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. Tennyson. 2. To grow larger - NAMELESS
1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller. 2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous. A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. Harte. 3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer."Nameless - GUARDER
One who guards. - SHELLER
One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller. - FULL-GROWN
Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell. - GOROON SHELL
A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell . - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - DISSERVE
To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym: - UNDRESS
To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe. - RESERVE
1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. - DYNAMO
A dynamo-electric machine. - DEMANDRESS
A woman who demands. - VALVE-SHELL
Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. - SPOUTSHELL
Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera. - DYNAMOMETRY
The art or process of measuring forces doing work. - DESERVEDNESS
Meritoriousness. - MEGATHEROID
One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.