Word Meanings - TONITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton.

Related words: (words related to TONITE)

• COTTONY
  1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• COTTONADE
  A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
• COTTON BATTING
  Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.
• COTTONARY
  Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.
• COTTONWOOD
  An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
• COTTONSEED MEAL
  A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.
• COTTONOUS
  Resembling cotton. Evelyn.
• COTTON
  and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, 1. A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes
• COTTONWEED
  See CUDWEED
• COTTON STATE
  Alabama; -- a nickname.
• COTTONTAIL
  The American wood rabbit ; -- also called Molly cottontail.
• COTTON SEED; COTTONSEED
  The seed of the cotton plant.
• EXPLOSIVE
  Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.
• PREPARATION
  The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock.
• EXPLOSIVELY
  In an explosive manner.
• COMPOUND
  In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
• COTTONSEED OIL
  A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure . and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• INEXPLOSIVE
  Not explosive.
• SUPRADECOMPOUND
  More than decompound; divided many times.
• NONPREPARATION
  Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.
• FELONY; TO COMPOUND A FELONY
  . See under Compound, v. t.
• DECOMPOUNDABLE
  Capable of being decompounded.