Word Meanings - HOPPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
See PL (more info) 1. One who, or that which, hops. 2. A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden
Additional info about word: HOPPER
See PL (more info) 1. One who, or that which, hops. 2. A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.
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- DELIVERANCE
Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; - OPENNESS
The quality or state of being open. - MACHINER
One who or operates a machine; a machinist. - SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and - DELIVERABLE
Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale. - CHUTE
1. A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel. 2. See Shoot. - LOWERMOST
Lowest. - OPEN SEA
A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum. - LOWERY
Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - MATERIALNESS
The state of being material. - WOODENLY
Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly. R. North. - WOODEN
1. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding. 2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure - OPEN
1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures - OPEN-MOUTHED
Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange. - WOODENNESS
Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness. We set our faces against the woodenness which then characterized German philology. Sweet. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - SHAPER
1. One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. The secret of those old shapers died with them. Lowell. 2. That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically; A kind of planer in which the tool, - SHAPELY
1. Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper. 2. Fit; suitable. Shaply for to - LOWER
Compar. of Low, a. - GRAMME MACHINE
A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - MISHAPPEN
To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser. - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - PROPENE
See PROPYLENE - REDELIVER
1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak. - BURRING MACHINE
A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. - SPINDLE-SHAPED
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - DIAMOND-SHAPED
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - REDELIVERY
1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.