Word Meanings - STRAIT-LACED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Bound with stays. Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced. Locke. 2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. Fuller. 3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.

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• LACINIATE; LACINIATED
  Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed. (more info) 1. Fringed; having a fringed border.
• LACONIC; LACONICAL
  1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• LACUSTRAL; LACUSTRINE
  Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in them; as, lacustrine flowers. Lacustrine deposits , the deposits which have been accumulated in fresh-water areas. -- Lacustrine dwellings. See Lake dwellings, under Lake.
• LACROSSE
  A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• LACTEOUS
  1. Milky; resembling milk. "The lacteous circle." Sir T. Browne. 2. Lacteal; conveying chyle; as, lacteous vessels.
• SCOPELINE
  Scopeloid.
• LACTEALLY
  Milkily; in the manner of milk.
• LACTEOUSLY
  In a lacteous manner; after the manner of milk.
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• STRICT
  Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
• LACEDAEMONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lacedæmon or Sparta, the chief city of Laconia in the Peloponnesus. -- n.
• LACERT
  A muscle of the human body. Chaucer.
• LACTIFUGE
  A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body.
• STRAIT
  A variant of Straight.
• LACTURAMIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an organic amido acid, which is regarded as a derivative of lactic acid and urea.
• LACTAGE
  The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which is made from it.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• PALACIOUS
  Palatial. Graunt.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• PHYLACTERED
  Wearing a phylactery.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• INTERAMBULACRUM
  In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum. (more info) Interambulacrums
• INTERLACE
  To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• PLACODERMATA
  See PLACODERMI
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• INTERAMBULACRAL
  Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.
• CLACK
  MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the