Word Meanings - SHAPS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Chaparajos. A pair of gorgeous buckskin shaps, embroidered up the sides and adorned with innumerable ermine skins. The Century.

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• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• ERMINED
  Clothed or adorned with the fur of the ermine. Pope.
• ADORN
  Adorned; decorated. Milton.
• EMBROIDER
  To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf. Thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen. Ex. xxviii. 39.
• ERMINES; ERMINOIS
  See 4
• ADORNMENT
  An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
• CHAPARAJOS
  Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in
• CENTURY
  1. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. And on it said a century of prayers. Shak. 2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago. Note: Century, in the reckoning of time, although
• EMBROIDERY
  1. Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering. 2. Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere
• ADORNER
  He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
• SIDESMAN
  1. A party man; a partisan. Milton. 2. An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.
• BUCKSKIN
  Breeches made of buckskin. I have alluded to his buckskin. Thackeray. (more info) 1. The skin of a buck. 2. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin. 3. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American
• INNUMERABLE
  Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered, for multitude; countless; numberless; unnumbered, hence, indefinitely numerous; of great number. Innumerable as the stars of night. Milton. -- In*nu"mer*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*nu"mer*a*bly, adv.
• EMBROIDERER
  One who embroiders.
• SHAPS
  Chaparajos. A pair of gorgeous buckskin shaps, embroidered up the sides and adorned with innumerable ermine skins. The Century.
• ERMINE
  A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel; the stoat. It is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes white, except the tip of the tail,
• MENISPERMINE
  An alkaloid distinct from picrotoxin and obtained from the cocculus indicus (the fruit of Anamirta Cocculus, formerly Menispermum Cocculus) as a white, crystalline, tasteless powder; -- called also menispermina.
• EXTERMINE
  To exterminate; to destroy. Shak.
• UNDERMINER
  One who undermines.
• INDETERMINED
  Undetermined.
• DETERMINER
  One who, or that which, determines or decides.
• IRONSIDES
  A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry.
• TERMINER
  A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.
• GALLIGASKINS
  Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense. (more info) Grecian, a name which seems to have been given in Venice, and to have