Word Meanings - PEDERERO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance. (more info) stone, L. petra, fr. Gr.

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• CHAMBERER
  1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• CHAMBERED
  Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• IMPETRATE
  Obtained by entreaty. Ld. Herbert.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• EYESTONE
  Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid,
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• GALLSTONE
  A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
• EAGLESTONE
  A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.