Word Meanings - ORB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A blank window or panel. Oxf. Gloss.

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• GLOSSA
  The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
• GLOSSIST
  A writer of comments. Milton.
• GLOSSOLOGY
  1. The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary. 2. The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
• GLOSSARIAL
  Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
• GLOSSOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossology.
• PANELWORK
  Wainscoting.
• GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossography.
• GLOSSANTHRAX
  A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
• BLANKET STITCH
  A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.
• PANELING
  A forming in panels; panelwork.
• BLANKET CLAUSE
  A clause, as in a blanket mortgage or policy, that includes a group or class of things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them.
• BLANKETING
  1. Cloth for blankets. 2. The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket. That affair of the blanketing happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of. Smollett.
• BLANKNESS
  The state of being blank.
• GLOSSOLOGIST
  One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.
• GLOSSOGRAPHY
  The writing of glossaries, glosses, or comments for illustrating an author.
• GLOSSIC
  A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only. Ingglish Glosik konvaiA. J. Ellis.
• WINDOW
  The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening. 3. A figure formed of lines crossing each other. Till he has windows on his bread and butter. King. French window , a casement window in two folds,
• GLOSSY
  1. Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface. 2. Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.
• BLANK
  1. To make void; to annul. Spenser. 2. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. Each opposite that blanks the face of joy. Shak.
• WINDOWY
  Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. Donne.
• IMPANELMENT
  The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.
• GYMNOGLOSSA
  A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.
• EMPANEL
  A list of jurors; a panel. Cowell.
• DORMER; DORMER WINDOW
  A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.
• SACCOGLOSSA
  See PELLIBRANCHIATA
• ENTOGLOSSAL
  Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.
• RIPPING PANEL
  A long patch, on a balloon, to be ripped off, by the rip cord, at landing, in order to allow the immediate escape of gas and instant deflation of the bag.