Word Meanings - LACQUERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or business of putting on lacquer; also, the coat of lacquer put on.

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• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• PUTTYROOT
  An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called
• PUTTER-ON
  An instigator. Shak.
• PUTT
  A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole.
• PUTTING GREEN
  The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.
• PUTTEE
  See GAITER
• LACQUERER
  One who lacquers, especially one who makes a business of lacquering.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• PUTTOCK
  The European kite. The buzzard. The marsh harrier.
• PUTTER
  1. One who puts or plates. 2. Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like.
• LACQUERING
  The act or business of putting on lacquer; also, the coat of lacquer put on.
• PUTTY-FACED
  White-faced; -- used contemptuously. Clarke.
• PUTTY
  A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes. Putty
• LACQUER
  A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for varnishing metals, papier-maché, and wood. The name is also given to varnishes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough,
• PUTTIER
  One who putties; a glazier.
• PUTTING
  The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game. Putting stone, a heavy stone used in the game of putting.
• SPUTTER
  1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. 2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell
• SPUTTERER
  One who sputters.