Word Meanings - LEDGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral. (more info) lögg the ledge or rim at the bottom of a cask. See Lie to be 1. A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting

Additional info about word: LEDGE

A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral. (more info) lögg the ledge or rim at the bottom of a cask. See Lie to be 1. A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery. 2. A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks. 3. A layer or stratum. The lowest ledge or row should be of stone. Sir H. Wotton.

Related words: (words related to LEDGE)

• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• LEDGEMENT
  See LEDGMENT
• BOTTOMRY
  A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• SHELF
  A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament. 2. A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships. On the tawny
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• BEAR
  produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold
• BEAR'S-BREECH
  See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
• PROJECTURE
  A jutting out beyond a surface.
• LIMITARY
  1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.
• BEAR'S-EAR
  A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf.
• BEARDLESSNESS
  The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
• BEARABLE
  Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• SULPHUR-BOTTOM
  A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• UNBOTTOMED
  Deprived of a bottom. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• DULEDGE
  One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage. Wilhelm.
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.