Word Meanings - TILE-DRAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.
Related words: (words related to TILE-DRAIN)
- FURNISHMENT
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel. - DRAINE
The missel thrush. - FURNISH
Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to - FURNISHER
One who supplies or fits out. - DRAINTRAP
See 5 - DRAINPIPE
A pipe used for carrying off surplus water. - DRAINTILE
A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile. - DRAINAGE
The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works. 4. Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. Latham. (more info) 1. A draining; a gradual - DRAINABLE
Capable of being drained. - DRAIN
1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent. Bacon. But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry. - DRAINING
The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land. Draining tile. Same as Draintile. - DRAINER
One who, or that which, drains. - TILESEED
Any plant of the genus Geissois, having seeds overlapping like tiles on a roof. - TILESTONE
A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian. 2. A tile of stone. - WATER DRAIN
A drain or channel for draining off water. - TOP-DRAINING
The act or practice of drining the surface of land. - TOP-DRAIN
To drain the surface of, as land; as, to top-drain a field or farm. - WELLDRAIN
To drain, as land; by means of wells, or pits, which receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery. - DISFURNISH
To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger. - CATCHDRAIN
A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water. - UNDERDRAIN
An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above. - TILE-DRAIN
To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain. - REFURNISHMENT
The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace. - GENTILESSE
Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility. Chaucer. - BEAUTILESS
Destitute of beauty. Hammond. - UNFURNISH
To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip. - UNDERFURNISH
To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.