Word Meanings - SWINGLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

from Swingle, v. t. Swingling tow, the coarse part of flax, separated from the finer by swingling and hatcheling.

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• SEPARATISM
  The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• SEPARATIVE
  Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold." Boyle.
• COARSELY
  In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
• SEPARATICAL
  Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical. Dr. T. Dwight.
• HATCHEL
  An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle. (more info) Dan. hegle, Sw. häkla, and prob. to E. hook. See Hook, and cf.
• SWINGLE
  1. To dangle; to wave hanging. Johnson. 2. To swing for pleasure.
• SWINGLETREE
  A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.
• SEPARATORY
  Separative. Cheyne.
• SEPARATING
  Designed or employed to separate. Separating funnel , a funnel, often globe-shaped, provided with a stopcock for the separate drawing off of immiscible liquids of different specific gravities.
• SEPARATIST
  One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary. Heavy fines on divines who should preach in
• FINERY
  A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling. (more info) 1. Fineness; beauty. Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts. 2. Ornament; decoration;
• SEPARATOR
  One who, or that which, separates. Specifically: A device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it. An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue.
• SEPARATE
  pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii.
• SWINGLEBAR
  A swingletree. De Quincey.
• SEPARATISTIC
  Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.
• SWINGLING
  from Swingle, v. t. Swingling tow, the coarse part of flax, separated from the finer by swingling and hatcheling.
• SEPARATRIX
  The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.
• COARSEN
  To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character. Graham.
• FINER
  One who fines or purifies.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• DEFINER
  One who defines or explains.
• REFINER
  One who, or that which, refines.