Word Meanings - PRUINOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.

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• FROSTED
  Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.
• 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.
• BLOOMINGNESS
  A blooming condition.
• BLOOMER
  1. A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and a broad-brimmed hat. 2. A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• BLOOMARY
  See BLOOMERY
• FROST-BITTEN
  Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.
• FROSTILY
  In a frosty manner.
• FROSTING
  1. A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc. 2. A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• BLOOMLESS
  Without bloom or flowers. Shelley.
• FROSTWORK
  The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
• FROSTFISH
  The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod. The smelt. A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish valued as a food fish.
• BLOOMING
  The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• FROSTLESS
  Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.
• COVERER
  One who, or that which, covers.
• COVERCHIEF
  A covering for the head. Chaucer.
• COVERTLY
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• 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.
• FULL-BLOOMED
  Like a perfect blossom. "Full-bloomed lips." Crashaw.
• REAPPEARANCE
  A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
• 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.