Word Meanings - ROOF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The cover of any building, including the roofing and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof,

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The cover of any building, including the roofing and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering. 2. That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth. The flowery roof Showered roses, which the morn repaired. Milton. (more info) Icel. hr a shed under which ships are built or kept; cf. OS. hr roof,

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• OUTER
  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• NECESSARY
  1. Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable. Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. Shak. 2. Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result;
• 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.
• VAULTING
  1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• VAULTY
  Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• OUTERLY
  1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
• PROTECTORIAL
  See PROTECTORAL
• MAINTAINOR
  One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party. Bouvier. Wharton.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• PROTECTORLESS
  Having no protector; unprotected.
• ROOFER
  One who puts on roofs.
• OTHER
  Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer.
• PROTECTIVE
  Affording protection; sheltering; defensive. " The favor of a protective Providence." Feltham. Protective coloring , coloring which serves for the concealment and preservation of a living organism. Cf. Mimicry. Wallace. -- Protective tariff ,
• VAULT
  An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray. 2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• WOODRUFF; WOODROOF
  A little European herb having a pleasant taste. It is sometimes used for flavoring wine. See Illust. of Whorl.
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• SOUTER
  A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• UNROOF
  To strip off the roof or covering of, as a house. Shak.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• ENVAULT
  To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram