Word Meanings - LITTRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A smooth kind of cartridge paper used for making cards. Knight.

Related words: (words related to LITTRESS)

• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• 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.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• MAKE
  A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
• MAKED
  Made. Chaucer.
• SMOOTHER
  One who, or that which, smooths.
• MAKE-UP
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
• KNIGHT-ERRANTRY
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• KNIGHT TEMPLAR
  See 3
• SMOOTHING
  fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.
• KNIGHTLY
  Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit. For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit. Spenser. full knightly without scorn. Tennyson.
• MAKEWEIGHT
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• HAYMAKING
  The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• BROMIDE PAPER; BROMID PAPER
  A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.
• CAPPAPER
  See N
• ALE-KNIGHT
  A pot companion.