Word Meanings - CRIBBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A coarse sieve or screen. 2. Coarse flour or meal. Johnson.

Related words: (words related to CRIBBLE)

• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• FLOURY
  Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour. Dickens.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• COARSELY
  In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
• JOHNSONIANISM
  A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
• JOHNSONESE
  The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
• FLOURISHINGLY
  , adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
• FLOURISHER
  One who flourishes.
• FLOURED
  Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process. Raymond.
• JOHNSON GRASS
  A tall perennial grass , valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.
• JOHNSONIAN
  Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.
• SCREEN
  A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like. 3. A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a
• COARSEN
  To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character. Graham.
• FLOUR
  The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard. Flour bolt, in milling, a gauze-covered,
• COARSENESS
  The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; melegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. "The coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange.
• FLOURISH
  fleurir, fr. L. florere to bloom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See 1. To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne. 2. To be prosperous; to increase
• COARSE-GRAINED
  Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement.
• SIEVE
  1. A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. "In a sieve
• DEFLOURER
  One who deflours; a ravisher.
• BESCREEN
  To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal. Shak.
• RED DOG FLOUR; RED-DOG FLOUR
  The lowest grade of flour in milling. It is dark and of little expansive power, is secured largely from the germ or embryo and adjacent parts, and contains a relatively high percentage of protein. It is chiefly useful as feed for farm animals.
• REFLOURISH
  To flourish again.
• DEFLOUR
  1. To deprive of flowers. 2. To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament. He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him. Jer. Taylor. 3. To deprive of virginity,