Word Meanings - TIRE-WOMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A lady's maid. Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke. 2. A dresser in a theater. Simmonds.

Related words: (words related to TIRE-WOMAN)

• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• LOCKER
  1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or
• LOCKET
  1. A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament. 2. A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• FASHIONABLENESS
  State of being fashionable.
• MAKED
  Made. Chaucer.
• MAKE-UP
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
• LOCKEN
  of Lock. Chaucer.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• THEATER; THEATRE
  1. An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed. 2. Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• MAKEWEIGHT
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• MAKE-BELIEVE
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.
• MAKARON
  See 2
• WOMANHOOD
  1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2.
• MAKING-UP
  1. The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof. 2. The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.
• WOMANIZE
  To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox.
• MAKI
  A lemur. See Lemur.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• GLOCKENSPIEL
  An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN
• HAYMAKING
  The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• DAIRYWOMAN
  A woman who attends to a dairy.