Word Meanings - POLYSTYLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall. -- n.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• INTERIOR
  1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball. 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore;
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• POLYSTYLE
  Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall. -- n.
• COURTEPY
  A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
• INTERIORLY
  Internally; inwardly.
• COURTBRED
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• COURTESANSHIP
  Harlotry.
• COURT-MARTIAL
  A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• COURTLIKE
  After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
• COURTEOUSNESS
  The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• OUTBUILD
  To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
• OUTCOURT
  An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.
• OVERBUILD
  1. To build over. Milton. 2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand.
• UNDERBUILDER
  A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.