Word Meanings - HACKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel. 2. Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk. 3. One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence,
Additional info about word: HACKLE
1. A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel. 2. Any flimsy substance unspun, as raw silk. 3. One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used. 4. An artificial fly for angling, made of feathers.
Related words: (words related to HACKLE)
- PECULIARIZE
To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - DRESSINESS
The state of being dressy. - PECULIARNESS
The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede. - HATCHEL
An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle. (more info) Dan. hegle, Sw. häkla, and prob. to E. hook. See Hook, and cf. - NARROW-MINDED
Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n. - PECULIARLY
In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually. - OFTENNESS
Frequency. Hooker. - DRESS CIRCLE
A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn. - MAKE
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer. - ARTIFICIALITY
The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial. - MAKED
Made. Chaucer. - PECULIAR
1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14. - NARROWER
One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More. - MAKE-UP
The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward. - 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. - OFTEN
Frequently; many times; not seldom. - SUBSTANCE
See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, - DRESSING
An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; - UNDRESS
To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - DEMANDRESS
A woman who demands. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - OFFENDRESS
A woman who offends. Shak. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n. - WIDOW-MAKER
One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak. - THENCEFROM
From that place. - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - HAYMAKING
The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay. - REDRESSIVE
Tending to redress. Thomson. - SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
The substance of the medullary sheath.