Word Meanings - TAMBOUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine. 2. A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame;
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A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine. 2. A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.
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- CIRCULARLY
In a circular manner. - HOLD
The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed. - PORTIONIST
One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - CIRCULARITY
The quality or state of being circular; a circular form. - SOMEWHAT
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. - EMBROIDER
To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf. Thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen. Ex. xxviii. 39. - HOLDBACK
1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when - COMMONLY
1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser. - CLOTHESLINE
A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. - HOLDER-FORTH
One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison. - HOLDER
One who is employed in the hold of a vessel. - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - CLOTHESHORSE
A frame to hang clothes on. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - STRETCHING
from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton. - RESEMBLINGLY
So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness. - CLOTHIER
1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes. - EMBROIDERY
1. Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering. 2. Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere - CIRCULAR
1. In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round. 2. repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning. 3. Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - UNFRAME
To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden. - INHOLD
To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - BEDCLOTHES
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak. - COPYHOLDER
One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader. - PROPORTIONATE
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke. - HEARSECLOTH
A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson. - HIGH-HOLDER
The flicker; -- called also high-hole. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - BLANCH HOLDING
A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise. - BEHOLDER
One who beholds; a spectator. - OFFICEHOLDER
An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - REAPPORTIONMENT
A second or a new apportionment.