Word Meanings - SHRED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

schroode, G. schrot a piece cut off, Icel. skrjothr a shred, and to 1. A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip. "Shreds of tanned leather." Bacon. 2. In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle. Shak.

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• NARROW
  A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.
• SHRIEVE
  A sheriff. Shak.
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• SHROWD
  See SHROOD
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• 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
• SHREW
  Any small insectivore of the genus Sorex and several allied genera of the family Sorecidæ. In form and color they resemble mice, but they have a longer and more pointed nose. Some of them are the smallest of all mammals. Note: The common European
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• SHRILLNESS
  The quality or state of being shrill.
• SHRIFT
  1. The act of shriving. In shrift and preaching is my diligence. Chaucer. 2. Confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it. Chaucer. Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day Shak. Therefore, my lord, address you
• SHRINKINGLY
  In a shrinking manner.
• TANNATE
  A salt of tannic acid.
• SHRIVING
  Shrift; confession. Spenser.
• LEATHERWOOD
  A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.
• SHROVE
  imp. of Shrive. Shrove Sunday, Quinguagesima Sunday. -- Shrove Tuesday, the Tuesday following Quinguagesima Sunday, and preceding the first day of Lent, or Ash Wednesday. Note: It was formerly customary in England, on this day, for the people to
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• TANNIN
  See TANNIC
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• STANNYEL; STANYEL
  See STANNEL
• WATER SHREW
  Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.
• STANNINE; STANNITE
  A mineral of a steel
• BRITANNIC
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• STANNARY
  Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works. The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record. Blackstone.
• STANNATE
  A salt of stannic acid.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
• UNSHROUD
  To remove the shroud from; to uncover. P. Fletcher.
• STANNOSO-
  A combining form denoting relation to, or connection with, certain stannnous compounds.