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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
    See T

 

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