Word Meanings - FIMBRIATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary. (more info) 1. Having a fringed border; fimbriate.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• FRINGY
  Aborned with fringes. Shak.
• SUBORDINARY
  One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary. Note: Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar, bend, sinister, pile, inescutcheon bordure, gyron, and quarter, are always
• FRINGENT
  Encircling like a fringe; bordering. "The fringent air." Emerson.
• TINCTURE
  One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory. Note: There are two metals: gold, called or, and represented in engraving by a white surface covered with small dots; and silver, called argent, and represented by a plain white surface. The colors
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• 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,
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• FRINGILLACEOUS
  Fringilline.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• NARROWER
  One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.
• FRINGE TREE
  A small oleaceous tree , of the southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.
• FIMBRIATE
  Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube.
• FRINGED
  Furnished with a fringe. Fringed lear , a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.
• WARBURG'S TINCTURE
  A preparation containing quinine and many other ingredients, often used in the treatment of malarial affections. It was invented by Dr. Warburg of London.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• DISTINCTURE
  Distinctness.
• UNDERFRINGE
  A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something. Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard. Tennyson.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.