Word Meanings - GROTTO-WORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto. Cowper.

Related words: (words related to GROTTO-WORK)

• ROCKWORK
  Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• GROTTO
  A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment. (more info) LL. grupta, fr. L. crypta a con cealed subterranran passage vault,
• ARTIFICIALITY
  The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
• ARTIFICIALLY
  1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature. 2. Ingeniously; skillfully. The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson. 3. Craftily; artfully. Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.
• GROTTO-WORK
  Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto. Cowper.
• ARTIFICIAL
  1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak. 2.
• ARTIFICIALNESS
  The quality of being artificial.
• IMITATION
  One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.
• ORNAMENTALLY
  By way of ornament.
• ARTIFICIALIZE
  To render artificial.
• IMITATIONAL
  Pertaining to, or employed in, imitation; as, imitational propensities.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
• INARTIFICIAL
  Not artificial; not made or elaborated by art; natural; simple; artless; as, an inartificial argument; an inartificial character. -- In*ar`ti*fi"cial*ly, adv. -- In*ar`ti*fi"cial*ness, n.
• NONLIMITATION
  Want of limitation; failure to limit.