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Word Meanings - DOORSTOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.

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  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • BLOCKISH
    Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n.
  • STRIPPING
    The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
  • BLOCKING
    1. The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks. 2. Blocks used to support temporarily.
  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • PLACENTARY
    Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • RIGHTEOUSNESS
    The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
  • BLOCK TIN
    See TIN
  • BLOCK SIGNAL
    One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.
  • SIMILARY
    Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
  • STRIP-LEAF
    Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • RIGHT-ANGLED
    Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
  • STRIPLING
    A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.
  • RIGHTEOUS
    Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
  • MATERIALNESS
    The state of being material.
  • PLACER
    One who places or sets. Spenser.
  • STRIPPER
    One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
  • SHUTTLEWISE
    Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.
  • CAUTIONARY BLOCK
    A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
  • BRIGHT
    See I
  • UNSTRIPED
    Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
  • CARTWRIGHT
    An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
  • TAILBLOCK
    A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • SPRIGHTLY
    Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
  • FRIGHTFUL
    1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
  • SHRIGHT
    imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
  • DISSIMILARLY
    In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
  • UPRIGHTNESS
    the quality or state of being upright.

 

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