Word Meanings - ENGRAILMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary. (more info) 1. The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc. Brande & C.

Related words: (words related to ENGRAILMENT)

• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• MEDALET
  A small medal.
• ORDINARY
  1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. 3. Of common rank, quality,
• CURVISERIAL
  Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
• ROUNDHEADED
  Having a round head or top.
• CURVATURE
  The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature , the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under
• CURVATE; CURVATED
  Bent in a regular form; curved.
• BRANDER
  1. One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron. 2. A gridiron.
• ROUNDHEAD
  A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• LORDLINESS
  The state or quality of being lordly. Shak.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• STEELINESS
  The quality of being steely.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• CHILLINESS
  1. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness. 2. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air. 3. Formality; lack of warmth.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• MELANCHOLINESS
  The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell.
• TRICURVATE
  Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• KINGLINESS
  The state or quality of being kingly.