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Word Meanings - NETTLES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting. Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams. Reef points.

Related words: (words related to NETTLES)

  • SLOW
    A moth. Rom. of R.
  • SLAPE
    Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical. Slape ale, plain ale, as opposed to medicated or mixed ale.
  • UNDERDOER
    One who underdoes; a shirk.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • UNDERSECRETARY
    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
  • UNDERPLOT
    1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
  • SLUBBERDEGULLION
    A mean, dirty wretch.
  • SLIGHTNESS
    The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
  • SLOUGHING
    The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
  • SLEIGHTLY
    Cunningly. Huloet.
  • UNDERNICENESS
    A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
  • SLAW; SLAWEN
    p. p. of Slee, to slay. With a sword drawn out he would have slaw himself. Wyclif (Acts xvi.
  • UNDERSOIL
    The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
  • UNDERDOLVEN
    p. p. of Underdelve.
  • SLIMNESS
    The quality or state of being slim.
  • UNDERNIME
    1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
  • UNDERPROP
    To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
  • SLIVE
    To cut; to split; to separate. Holland.
  • UNDERCREST
    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
  • SLEDDING
    1. The act of transporting or riding on a sled. 2. The state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good.
  • SLUMP
    The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
  • SCINTILLOUSLY
    In a scintillant manner.
  • GRISLY
    Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible,
  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • ANXIOUSLY
    In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
  • TUSSLE
    To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.
  • FRIENDLINESS
    The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
  • ROSLAND
    heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
  • LORDLINESS
    The state or quality of being lordly. Shak.

 

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