Word Meanings - DAMASK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dammesq, Ar. Daemeshq; cf. Heb. d'meseq damask; cf. It. damasco, Sp. 1. Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like. "A bed of ancient damask." W. Irving. 2. Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different

Additional info about word: DAMASK

Dammesq, Ar. Daemeshq; cf. Heb. d'meseq damask; cf. It. damasco, Sp. 1. Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like. "A bed of ancient damask." W. Irving. 2. Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color. 3. A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings. 4. Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel. 5. A deep pink or rose color. Fairfax.

Related words: (words related to DAMASK)

• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• DIFFERENTIALLY
  In the way of differentiation.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• DIFFERENTLY
  In a different manner; variously.
• PATTERN
  A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder , devices, in a loom, for
• DIFFERENT
  1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different
• LINENER
  A dealer in linen; a linen draper.
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• DAMASK
  Dammesq, Ar. Daemeshq; cf. Heb. d'meseq damask; cf. It. damasco, Sp. 1. Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like. "A bed of ancient damask." W. Irving. 2. Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different
• WOVEN
  p. p. of Weave. Woven paper, or Wove paper, writing paper having an even, uniform surface, without watermarks.
• ELABORATED
  developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, the carefully elaborated theme. Syn. -- detailed, elaborate.
• DAMASKIN
  A sword of Damask steel. No old Toledo blades or damaskins. Howell
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• PRODUCER
  A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
• DIFFERENTIA
  The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.
• ANCIENTNESS
  The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
• ANCIENTLY
  1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
• PRODUCENT
  One who produces, or offers to notice. Ayliffe.
• DIFFERENTIATE
  To obtain the differential, or differential coefficient, of; as, to differentiate an algebraic expression, or an equation. (more info) 1. To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to
• NIRVANA
  In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• REPRODUCTORY
  Reproductive.
• SIRVENTE
  A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages. (more info) originally, the poem of, or concerning, a sirvent, fr. sirvent,
• REPRODUCER
  One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.
• REPRODUCE
  To produce again. Especially: To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. To cause to exist again. Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with those their colors are mixed again