Word Meanings - STAIRWAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase. "A rude and narrow stairway." Moore.

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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.
• FLIGHTER
  A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight.
• STAIRWAY
  A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase. "A rude and narrow stairway." Moore.
• STEPSTONE
  A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• FLIGHTINESS
  The state or quality of being flighty. The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne. Syn. -- Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness; eccentricity. See Levity.
• FLIGHTY
  1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and
• NARROWER
  One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.
• STEPSISTER
  A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.
• STEPSON
  A son of one's husband or wife by a former marriage.
• FLIGHTILY
  In a flighty manner.
• NARROWLY
  1. With little breadth; in a narrow manner. 2. Without much extent; contractedly. 3. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly. 4. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly;
• FLIGHTED
  Feathered; -- said of arrows. (more info) 1. Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition. "Drowsy-flighted steeds." Milton.
• FLIGHT-SHOT
  The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile. Within a flight-shot it inthe valley. Evelyn. Half a flight-shot from the king's oak. Sir W. Scott.
• NARROWNESS
  The condition or quality of being narrow.
• STAIRCASE
  A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc. To make a complete staircase is a curious piece of architecture. Sir H. Wotton. Staircase shell. Any scalaria, or wentletrap. Any species of Solarium, or perspective
• FLIGHT
  flyht a fleeing, fr. fleón to flee, G. flucht a fleeing, Sw. flykt, G. flug a flying, Sw. flygt, D. vlugt a fleeing or flying, Dan. 1. The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying. Like
• MOORESS
  A female Moor; a Moorish woman.
• NARROWING
  1. The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent. 2. The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• UNDERSTAIRS
  The basement or cellar.
• UPSTAIRS
  Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.
• BACK STAIRS
  Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.
• BED STEPS
  Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height.
• BACKSTAIRS; BACKSTAIR
  Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; as if finding access by the back stairs. A backstairs influence. Burke. Female caprice and backstairs influence. Trevelyan.