Word Meanings - SCAPPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry. To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone. Gwilt.

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• TOOLING
  Work perfomed with a tool. The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• RUBBLEWORK
  Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• TOOL
  1. To shape, form, or finish with a tool. "Elaborately tooled." Ld. Lytton. 2. To drive, as a coach.
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• FINISH
  1. To come to an end; to terminate. His days may finish ere that hapless time. Shak. 2. To end; to die. Shak.
• QUARRY-FACED
  Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• RUBBIDGE
  Rubbish. Bp. Hall.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• SHAPE
  creature, fr. the root of scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, to shape, to do, to effect; akin to OS. giskeppian, OFries. skeppa, D. scheppen, G. schaffen, OHG. scaffan, scepfen, skeffen, Icer. skapa, skepja, Dan. skabe, skaffe, Sw. skapa, skaffa, Goth.
• TOOL-REST
  the part that supports a tool-post or a tool.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• QUARRY
  A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine . (more info) quadraria a quarry, whence squared stones are dug, fr.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• FREEDSTOOL
  See FRIDSTOL
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• EYESTONE
  Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid,