Word Meanings - KNITTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting. 2. Union formed by knitting, as of bones. Knitting machine, one of a number of contrivances for mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like. -- Knitting , a stiff rod, as of steel
Additional info about word: KNITTING
1. The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting. 2. Union formed by knitting, as of bones. Knitting machine, one of a number of contrivances for mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like. -- Knitting , a stiff rod, as of steel wire, with rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric, as in stockings. -- Knitting sheath, a sheath to receive the end of a needle in knitting.
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - STEELING
The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v. - KNITTLE
See NETTLES (more info) 1. A string that draws together a purse or bag. Wright. 2. pl. - STEELHEAD
A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil. - STEELINESS
The quality of being steely. - NUMBERFUL
Numerous. - KNITTER
One who, or that which, knits, joins, or unites; a knitting machine. Shak. - MACHINER
One who or operates a machine; a machinist. - STIFFENER
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - UNIONISTIC
Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - STIFFENING
1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - FORME
See PATTé - FORMEDON
A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished. - FORMAT
The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form. The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. G. H. Putnam. One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little - GRAMME MACHINE
A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - CARBON STEEL
Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel. - UNSTEEL
To disarm; to soften. Richardson. - INTERCOMMUNION
Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - PENNIFORM
Having the form of a feather or plume.