Word Meanings - DRAWING-ROOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room. 2. The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room. He would amaze a drawing-room

Additional info about word: DRAWING-ROOM

1. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room. 2. The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room. He would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. Macaulay. Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car.

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• DINE
  1. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men. A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. Sir W. Scott. 2. To dine upon; to have to eat. "What will ye dine." Chaucer.
• DINGEY; DINGY; DINGHY
  1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. Malcom. 2. A ship's smallest boat.
• DRAWER
  An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, draws; as: One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good
• DRAW
  1. The act of drawing; draught. 2. A lot or chance to be drawn. 3. A drawn game or battle, etc. 4. That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• DRAWCANSIR
  A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.
• APPROPRIATION
  1. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object. 2.
• DRAW-CUT
  A single cut with a knife.
• DINGDONG THEORY
  The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first
• DRAWEE
  The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
• DINNERLY
  Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley.
• DINSOME
  Full of din. Burns.
• DRAWROD
  A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
• DINER-OUT
  One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company. A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate. Byron.
• DINORNIS
  A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa.
• DRAWBAR
  An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. A bar of iron with an eye at each end,
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• DRAWLINK
  See
• DINAR
  1. A petty money of accounts of Persia. 2. An ancient gold coin of the East.
• DRAWGLOVES
  An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.
• APTITUDINAL
  Suitable; fit.
• EXCEEDING
  More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
• PIPERIDINE
  An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.
• QUINOIDINE
  A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids.
• HEADING
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• ALDINE
  An epithet applied to editions which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
  The state of being moldy.
• NODDING
  Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• SLEDDING
  1. The act of transporting or riding on a sled. 2. The state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good.
• HOOD MOLDING; HOOD MOULDING
  A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.
• MANDINGOS
  ; sing. Mandingo. An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.
• BEADING
  Molding in imitation of beads. 2. The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.
• ODINIC
  Of or pertaining to Odin.