Word Meanings - LINSEY-WOOLSEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Cloth made of linen and wool, mixed. 2. Jargon. Shak.

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• MIXEDLY
  In a mixed or mingled manner.
• JARGON
  A variety of zircon. See Zircon.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• LINENER
  A dealer in linen; a linen draper.
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• MIXTLY
  With mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly. Bacon.
• CLOTHIER
  1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.
• CLOTHING
  See CARD (more info) 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing
• JARGONELLE
  A variety of pear which ripens early.
• CLOTHESPIN
  A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
• MIXER
  One who, or that which, mixes.
• JARGONIC
  Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon.
• CLOTHES
  1. Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. If I may touch but his clothes,
• MIX
  mieshate, W. mysgu, Gael. measg, L. miscere, mixtum, Gr. miçra mixed. The English word has been influenced by L. miscere, mixtum (cf. Mixture), and even the AS. miscan may have been borrowed fr. L. 1. To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of
• JARGONIST
  One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang. Macaulay.
• MIXEN
  A compost heap; a dunghill. Chaucer. Tennyson.
• CLOTHRED
  Clottered. Chaucer.
• MIXTION
  1. Mixture. 2. A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.
• MIXTURE
  A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved. (more info) 1. The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
• BROADCLOTH
  A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
• UNCLOTHED
  Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• PERMIX
  To mix; to mingle.
• SADDLECLOTH
  A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.
• PERMIXTION
  See PERMISSION
• GUNNY; GUNNY CLOTH
  A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage. Gunny bag, a sack made of gunny, used for
• HAIRCLOTH
  Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.
• CHEESE CLOTH
  A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.