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. - SLOUGHING
The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis. - SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - SLEIGHTLY
Cunningly. Huloet. - 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.