Word Meanings - JAPAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner; also, the varnish or lacquer used in japanning.

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• FIGURANTE
  A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.
• JAPANNED
  Treated, or coated, with varnish in the Japanese manner. Japanned leather,leather treated with coatings of Japan varnish, and dried in a stove. Knight.
• JAPANESE
  Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants.
• JAPANNING
  The art or act of varnishing in the Japanese manner.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• VARNISHER
  1. One who varnishes; one whose occupation is to varnish. 2. One who disguises or palliates; one who gives a fair external appearance. Pope.
• LACQUERER
  One who lacquers, especially one who makes a business of lacquering.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• FIGURANT
  One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.
• FIGURATED
  Having a determinate form.
• LACQUERING
  The act or business of putting on lacquer; also, the coat of lacquer put on.
• FIGURABLE
  Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape. Lead is figurable, but water is not. Johnson.
• FIGURABILITY
  The quality of being figurable. Johnson.
• JAPANNISH
  After the manner of the Japanese; resembling japanned articles. Carlyle.
• FIGURINE
  A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.
• VARNISHING
  The act of laying on varnish; also, materials for varnish.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• VARNISH
  vernir to varnish, fr. LL. vitrinire to glaze, from LL. 1. A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either
• FIGURIAL
  Represented by figure or delineation. Craig.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
• PREFIGURATIVE
  Showing by prefiguration. "The prefigurative atonement." Bp. Horne.
• DEFIGURATION
  Disfiguration; mutilation. Bp. Hall.
• DISFIGURER
  One who disfigures.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• PREFIGURATION
  The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured. A variety of prophecies and prefigurations. Norris.
• DEFIGURE
  To delineate. These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.