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Word Meanings - PATCHERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy. Shak.

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  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • 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.
  • BUNGLING
    Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.
  • BUNGLER
    A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • BOTCHERY
    A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
  • HYPOCRISY
    The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • COVERTNESS
    Secrecy; privacy.
  • COVERER
    One who, or that which, covers.
  • 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
  • BUNGLINGLY
    Clumsily; awkwardly.
  • COVERING
    Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering
  • COVERAGE
    The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.
  • COVER-SHAME
    Something used to conceal infamy. Dryden.
  • COVERED
    Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden. Covered way , a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around
  • COVERSED SINE
    The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
  • COVERTURE
    The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte. (more info) 1. Covering; shelter; defence; hiding.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • DISCOVERTURE
    A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
  • 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.
  • DISCOVERY
    1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
  • IRRECOVERABLE
    Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless.
  • DISCOVERER
    1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A scout; an explorer. Shak.
  • RECOVERANCE
    Recovery.
  • INDISCOVERY
    Want of discovery.

 

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