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Word Meanings - MARBLEIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron.

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  • GRAINED
    Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • SURFACE LOADING
    The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
  • SLATER
    One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • GRAINING
    The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. (more info) 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • STAIN
    1. To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood. 2. To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the
  • STAINLESS
    Free from stain; immaculate. Shak. The veery care he took to keep his name Stainless, with some was evidence of shame. Crabbe. Syn. -- Blameless; spotless; faultless. See Blameless.
  • SLATE
    An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist. 2. Any rock or stone having a slaty structure. 3. A prepared piece of such stone. Especially: A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc. A
  • COVERTNESS
    Secrecy; privacy.
  • GRAINY
    Resembling grains; granular.
  • COVERER
    One who, or that which, covers.
  • GRAINER
    1. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate. 2. A knife for taking the hair off skins. 3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble,
  • COVERCHIEF
    A covering for the head. Chaucer.
  • COVERTLY
    Secretly; in private; insidiously.
  • COVER
    operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing 1. To overspread the surface of with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And
  • RESEMBLINGLY
    So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
  • SURFACE TENSION
    That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth
  • SUSTAIN
    F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • INGRAIN
    1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
  • SUSTAINABLE
    Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
  • MISTRANSLATE
    To translate erroneously.
  • 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.
  • MIGRAINE
    See A
  • FELT GRAIN
    , the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.
  • ABSTAIN
    To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak. Syn. -- To refrain;
  • PETWORTH MARBLE
    A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.
  • DISCOVERTURE
    A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
  • DELIMITATION
    The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
  • TRANSLATE
    To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden. 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the
  • DISCOVERABLE
    Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.

 

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