Word Meanings - QUARRY-FACED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.

Related words: (words related to QUARRY-FACED)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• QUARRY-FACED
  Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• 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.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• COMES
  The answer to the theme in a fugue.
• POINTLESS
  Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
• 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;
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• INTERPOINT
  To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.