Word Meanings - TRAPS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.
Related words: (words related to TRAPS)
- SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - PORTABLENESS
The quality or state of being portable; portability. - DRESSINESS
The state of being dressy. - DRESS CIRCLE
A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn. - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - PORTABLE
1. Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine. South. 2. Possible to be endured; supportable. How light and portable my pain seems now! Shak. Portable forge. See under Forge. - 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 - GOODSHIP
Favor; grace. Gower. - DRESSING
An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; - SMALL
sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity - GOODS
See 3 - DRESSY
Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving. - DRESS COAT
A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat. - SMALLAGE
A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery. - SMALLY
In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham. - DRESSMAKING
The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses. - FURNITURE
A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture. (more info) 1. That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment. The form and all the furniture of the earth. Tillotson. The thoughts which make the - SMALLNESS
The quality or state of being small. - SMALLS
See 3 - LUGGAGE
That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents. I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey. Swift. What do you mean, To dote thus on such luggage! - UNDRESS
To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe. - DEMANDRESS
A woman who demands. - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - OFFENDRESS
A woman who offends. Shak. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - REDRESSIVE
Tending to redress. Thomson. - EXPORTABLE
Suitable for exportation; as, exportable products. - DRY GOODS
A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. - ADDRESS
To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more - INSUPPORTABLE
Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv. - TOP-DRESSING
The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied. - TENDRESSE
Tender feeling; fondness. - TRANSPORTABLE
1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense. - UNSUPPORTABLE
Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv. - UNDERDRESSED
Not dresses enough. - FOUNDRESS
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.