Word Meanings - KERCHIEF - Book Publishers vocabulary database
couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
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couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in compounds; as, neckerchief; breastkerchief; and later, handkerchief. He might put on a hat, a muffler, and a kerchief, and so escape. Shak. Her black hair strained away To a scarlet kerchief caught beneath her chin. Mrs. Browning. 2. A lady who wears a kerchief. Dryden.
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- COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - 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. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - SQUARE-TOED
Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - SQUARELY
In a square form or manner. - SIMILARY
Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - MATERIALNESS
The state of being material. - SQUARE-RIGGED
Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels. - ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - OTHER
Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer. - LINENER
A dealer in linen; a linen draper. - COVERTNESS
Secrecy; privacy. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - THREE-SQUARE
Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - T SQUARE
See T - HEREHENCE
From hence. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - ISOTHERMAL
Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram - EEL-MOTHER
The eelpout. - ISOTHERMOBATHIC
Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean. - MOTHER-OF-PEARL
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.