Word Meanings - ROUGHDRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.
Related words: (words related to ROUGHDRY)
- IRONBARK TREE
The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders; -- called also ironwood. - IRONIC
Ironical. Sir T. Herbert. - SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - IRONIST
One who uses irony. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - IRONWOOD
A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood. Note: In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam are so called; also the Olneya Tesota, a small tree of Arizona; in the West Indies, the Erythroxylon areolatum, and several other unrelated - SMOOTH
1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16. - IRONWEED
A tall weed with purplish flowers . The name is also applied to other plants of the same genus. - IRONISH
Resembling iron, as in taste. Wood. - IRON
1. Of, or made of iron; consisting of iron; as, an iron bar, dust. 2. Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness. 3. Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.; as: Rude; hard; harsh; severe. Iron - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - SMOOTHLY
In a smooth manner. - IRON-SIDED
Having iron sides, or very firm sides. - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - LAUNDRYMAN
A man who follows the business of laundering. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - IRONMONGER
A dealer in iron or hardware. - IRON-CASED
Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel; ironclad. - IRONWORT
An herb of the Mint family , supposed to heal sword cuts; also, a species of Galeopsis. - IRONER
One who, or that which, irons. - BRAND IRON
1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - CAST-IRON
Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding. - T IRON
See T - LOFTING IRON
See LOFTER - BAR IRON
See IRON - COBIRON
An andiron with a knob at the top. Bacon. - TIRONIAN
Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome. - TEE IRON
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