Word Meanings - PAVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement. 2. A pavement.
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- COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - LAYLAND
Land lying untilled; fallow ground. Blount. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - 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. - PROCESSIVE
Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge. - PROCESSIONALIST
One who goes or marches in a procession. - LAYERING
A propagating by layers. Gardner. - LAYING
1. The act of one who, or that which, lays. 2. The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch. 3. The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - PAVEMENT
That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement, - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - PROCESSIONARY
Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular - PLACE
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe - COVERTNESS
Secrecy; privacy. - COVERER
One who, or that which, covers. - PLACENTA
The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi - COVERCHIEF
A covering for the head. Chaucer. - PLAY
quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - WAYLAYER
One who waylays another. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky. - PLAYTE
See PLEYT - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - TRACKLAYER
Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n. - MEDAL PLAY
Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes. - OVERLAY
To put an overlay on. (more info) 1. To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams - CLAYISH
Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it. - ACID PROCESS
That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.