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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.

 

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