Word Meanings - SMOKEHOUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.

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• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• CURTAL
  A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short. Nares.
• WHEREIN
  1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet
• CURSORIAL
  Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. Of or pertaining to the Cursores.
• CURMURRING
  Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. Burns.
• SUBJECTION
  1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
• CURIA
  The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. Burrill. (more info) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus. The place of assembly of one of these divisions. The place where
• WHEREVER
  At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.
• SUBJECTIST
  One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
• SUBJECTNESS
  Quality of being subject.
• CURTEIN
  See CURTANA
• DENSE
  1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
• CURARE; CURARI
  A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos . It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as
• CURCULIONIDOUS
  Pertaining to the Curculionideæ, or weevil tribe.
• CURIALIST
  One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Shipley.
• CURTANA
  The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.
• CURRY
  A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices. 2. A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry. Curry powder , a condiment used for making curry, formed of various materials, including strong
• CURDINESS
  The state of being curdy.
• CURIALISM
  The wiew or doctrins of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Gladstone.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• MERCURIALISM
  The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of mercury, or by exposure to its fumes, as in mining or smelting.
• RECUR
  1. To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. I. Watts. 2. To occur at a stated interval, or according to some
• ZANTE CURRANT
  A kind of seedless grape or raisin; -- so called from Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• WHER; WHERE
  Whether. Piers Plowman. Men must enquire , Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer.
• JAPAN CURRENT
  A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• PROCURATORSHIP
  The office or term of a procurator. Bp. Pearson.
• ESCURIAL
  A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid. Note: The ground plan is said to be in the form of a gridiron, the structure being designed in honor of St. Lawrence,
• INCUR
  1. To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable or subject to; to bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; as, to incur
• DECURSIVELY
  In a decursive manner. Decursively pinnate , having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole; -- said of a leaf.
• PHASING CURRENT
  The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
• SECURIFORM
  Having the form of an ax hatchet.