Word Meanings - SET-STITCHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stitched according to a formal pattern. "An old set-stiched chair, valanced, and fringed with party-colored worsted bobs." Sterne.

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• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• VALANCE
  p. pr. of avaler to go down, let down, descent ; but 1. Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor. Valance of Venice gold in needlework. Shak. 2. The drooping
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• STICHIC
  Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines.
• FRINGY
  Aborned with fringes. Shak.
• ACCORDANCY
  Accordance. Paley.
• ACCORDANTLY
  In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
• PATTERN
  A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder , devices, in a loom, for
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• FRINGENT
  Encircling like a fringe; bordering. "The fringent air." Emerson.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• ACCORDINGLY
  1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. 2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. Syn. -- Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. -- Accordingly, Consequently, indicate
• ACCORDING
  Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.
• STICH
  1. A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet. 2. A line in the Scriptures; specifically , one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the
• STITCH
  A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance. You have gone a good stitch. Bunyan. In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• FORMALIZE
  1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal.
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• PENTASTICH
  A composition consisting of five verses.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• TELESTICH
  A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.
• PETALOSTICHA
  An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid.
• BACKSTITCH
  A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• HEMSTITCHED
  Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.
• HEPTASTICH
  A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.
• BLANKET STITCH
  A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.