Word Meanings - RAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RAIL)

• Scold
• Chide
• rail
• reprimand
• reprove
• brawl
• rebuke
• abuse

Related words: (words related to RAIL)

• SCOLDER
  1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• REPRIMAND
  Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay. (more info) reprimenda, that is to be checked or suppressed, fr. reprimere to check, repress; pref. re-
• SCOLDINGLY
  In a scolding manner.
• CHIDER
  One who chides or quarrels. Shak.
• BRAWLING
  1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. 2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp.
• CHIDERESS
  She who chides.
• REPROVE
  1. To convince. When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. John xvi. 9. 2. To disprove; to refute. Reprove my allegation, if you can. Shak. 3. To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty;
• REBUKE
  1. A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment. For thy sake I have suffered rebuke. Jer. xv. 15. Why bear you these rebukes and answer not Shak. 2. Check; rebuff. L'Estrange. To be without rebuke, to live without
• ABUSE
  1. To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle shoots rapidly
• REPROVER
  One who, or that which, reproves.
• SCOLDING
  a. & n. from Scold, v. Scolding bridle, an iron frame. See Brank, n., 2.
• ABUSER
  One who abuses .
• BRAWLER
  One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler , one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.
• REBUKEFUL
  Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke. -- Re*buke"ful*ly, adv.
• REPRIMANDER
  One who reprimands.
• SCOLD
  To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to scold at a servant. Pardon me, lords, 't is the first time ever I was forced to scold. Shak.
• REBUKER
  One who rebukes.
• ABUSEFUL
  Full of abuse; abusive. "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.
• BRAWLINGLY
  In a brawling manner.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• SELF-ABUSE
  1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.
• ORCHIDEAN
  Orchidaceous.
• SELF-REPROVED
  Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt.
• UNREPROVED
  1. Not reproved. Sandys. 2. Not having incurred reproof, blameless. In unreproved pleasures free. Milton.
• OUTSCOLD
  To exceed in scolding. Shak.