Word Meanings - THOROUGHSTITCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

So as to go the whole length of any business; fully; completely. Preservance alone can carry us thoroughstitch. L'Estrange.

Related words: (words related to THOROUGHSTITCH)

• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• ALONENESS
  A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. Bp. Montagu.
• LENGTHFUL
  Long. Pope.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• LENGTHINESS
  The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.
• CARRYK
  A carack. Chaucer.
• WHOLESALE
  1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
• LENGTHWAYS; LENGTHWISE
  In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• WHOLE-SOULED
  Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
• ESTRANGEDNESS
  State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.
• CARRYALL
  A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
• ALONELY
  Exclusive. Fabyan.
• ALONE
  1. Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18. 2. Of or by itself; by themselves;
• FULLY
  In a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition. Fully committed , committed to prison for trial, in distinction from being detained for
• LENGTHILY
  In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.
• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• HEALTHFULLY
  In health; wholesomely.
• ABALONE
  A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.
• ALENGTH
  At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer.
• RAPFULLY
  Violently.
• SCARRY
  Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
• CAREFULLY
  In a careful manner.
• FRIGHTFULLY
  In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.
• MISCARRY
  1. To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat. My ships have all miscarried. Shak. The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried. Shak. 2. To bring forth young
• UNWHOLE
  Not whole; unsound.