Word Meanings - LATTICING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut. (more info) 1. The act or process of making a lattice of, or of fitting a lattice to.

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• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• STRUTTING
  from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
• CROSSLY
  Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• CROSSJACK
  The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• CROSSOPTERYGIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n.
• CROSSBRED
  Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• CROSS-STONE
  See STAUROTIDE
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• CROSS-ARMED
  With arms crossed.
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• CROSSBREED
  1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
• CROSSLEGGED
  Having the legs crossed.
• CROSS-VAULTING
  Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• LACROSSE
  A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.