Word Meanings - SEWEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place. Halliwell.
Related words: (words related to SEWEL)
- STRE
Straw. Chaucer. - STROKER
One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton. - STRONTIAN
Strontia. - STROMATIC
Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds. - STRATARITHMETRY
The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure. - STRAPPING
Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar. - STRIATUM
The corpus striatum. - STREPITORES
A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - STRUTTING
from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv. - STRAIGHT-JOINT
Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - STROMATOLOGY
The history of the formation of stratified rocks. - STRUVITE
A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia. - PREVENTATIVE
That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive. - STRATEGIC; STRATEGICAL
Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice. -- Stra*te"gic*al*ly, adv. Strategic line , a line joining strategic points. -- Strategic point , any point or region in the theater or warlike operations which affords to its possessor - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - STRATUM
A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively. 2. A bed or layer artificially made; a course. - STRIPPING
The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - IATROCHEMISTRY
Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, - MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer. - PEDESTRIAN
Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey. - LUSTROUS
Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv. - OSTROGOTHIC
Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - REGISTRANT
One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark. - ANCESTRY
1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who - NAVEL-STRING
The umbilical cord. - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable.