Word Meanings - LOVELOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Burton. A long lovelock and long hair he wore. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to LOVELOCK)

• HANGNAIL
  A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
• FASHION-MONGERING
  Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
• FASHIONED
  Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
• FASHION-MONGER
  One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
• JAMESTOWN WEED
  The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium , a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum.
• FASHIONABLY
  In a fashionable manner.
• LOVELOCK
  A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Burton. A long lovelock and long hair he wore. Sir W. Scott.
• HANGER
  1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman. 2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust.
• HANGDOG
  A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
• HANG
  Hanging. The use of hanged is preferable to that of hung, when reference is had to death or execution by suspension, and it is also i., fr. h, v. t. ; akin to OS. hang, v. i. D. hangen, v. t. & i., G. hangen, v. i, hängen, v. t, Isel hanga, v.
• FASHIONABLENESS
  State of being fashionable.
• HANGMAN
  One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office. Shak.
• FASHION
  orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to make. See 1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• JAMESONITE
  A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron.
• JAMES'S POWDER
  Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.
• HANG-BY
  A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt. B. Jonson.
• FASHIONABLE
  1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress. 2. Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy;
• HANGER-ON
  One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted. Goldsmith.
• PROMINENTLY
  In a prominent manner.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• COUNTERCHANGED
  Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
• UNHANG
  1. To divest or strip of hangings; to remove the hangings, as a room. 2. To remove from that which supports it; as, to unhang a gate.
• COUNTERCHANGE
  1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
• WHANGHEE
  See WANGHEE
• CHANGEABLY
  In a changeable manner.
• INTERCHANGEABILITY
  The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.
• REFASHIONMENT
  The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned. Leigh Hunt.