Word Meanings - PENKNIFE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• MENDICITY
  The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy. Rom. of R.
• MENDICANT
  Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars. Mendicant orders , certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans,
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• QUILL
  1. One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather. 2. A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the
• MENDIANT
  See MENDINANT
• QUILLING
  A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills. One of the rounded plaits or flutings of such a band.
• MENDER
  One who mends or repairs.
• MAKE
  A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• MAKED
  Made. Chaucer.
• MENDELIAN CHARACTER
  A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• MAKE-UP
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
• QUILLAIA BARK
  The bark of a rosaceous tree , native of Chili. The bark is finely laminated, and very heavy with alkaline substances, and is used commonly by the Chilians instead of soap. Also called soap bark.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• MENDABLE
  Capable of being mended.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• COQUILLE
  A shell or shell-like dish or mold in which viands are served. The expansion of the guard of a sword, dagger, etc. A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, and named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• SQUILLITIC
  Of or pertaining to squills. "Squillitic vinegar." Holland.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• CASE KNIFE
  1. A knife carried in a sheath or case. Addison. 2. A large table knife; -- so called from being formerly kept in a case.
• HAYMAKING
  The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.