Word Meanings - MATCH-COAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A coat made of match-cloth.
Related words: (words related to MATCH-COAT)
- MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - CLOTHESLINE
A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. - MATCHLOCK
An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match. - CLOTHESHORSE
A frame to hang clothes on. - 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. - MATCH-CLOTH
A coarse cloth. - MATCH PLAY
Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won or lost by each side; -- disting. from medal play. - MATCH
1. To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal. No settled senses of the world can match The pleasure of that madness. Shak. 2. To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show - 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 - MATCHMAKING
1. The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning. 2. The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others. - MATCH GAME
A game arranged as a test of superiority; also, one of a series of such games. - CLOTHESPIN
A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line. - MATCH-COAT
A coat made of match-cloth. - 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, - CLOTHRED
Clottered. Chaucer. - CLOTHESPRESS
A receptacle for clothes. - MATCHLESS
1. Having no equal; unequaled. "A matchless queen." Waller. 2. Unlike each other; unequal; unsuited. "Matchless ears." Spenser. -- Match"less*ly, adv. -- Match"less*ness, n. - CLOTH
cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. klæ'ebi, Dan. klæde, cloth, 1. A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; - MATCHABLE
Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent. -- Match"a*ble*ness, n. Sir Walter Raleigh . . . is matchable with the best of the ancients. Hakewill. - MATCHER
One who, or that which, matches; a matching machine. See under 3d Match. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - 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. - MISMATCH
To match unsuitably. - IMMATCHABLE
Matchless; peerless. Holland. - SADDLECLOTH
A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing. - 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 - PARLOR MATCH
A friction match that contains little or no sulphur. - 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.