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.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• HIGH-HOLDER
  The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
• 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.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.