Word Meanings - TRICLINIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts. A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.

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• DINGEY; DINGY; DINGHY
  1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. Malcom. 2. A ship's smallest boat.
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• TABLER
  1. One who boards. 2. One who boards others for hire. B. Jonson.
• COUCHE
  Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon. Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couché is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• TABLEAU VIVANT
  See 2
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• TABLEMAN
  A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. Bacon.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• THREE-MILE
  Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• THREE-PILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• DINGDONG THEORY
  The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• RECLINING
  Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular. Recumbent. Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck .
• THREE-DECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• DINNERLY
  Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• RECLINATE
  Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.
• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• IMPALATABLE
  Unpalatable.
• APTITUDINAL
  Suitable; fit.
• EXCEEDING
  More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• PIPERIDINE
  An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.
• QUINOIDINE
  A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• HEADING
  A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. (more info) 1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head. 2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• UNWARRANTABLE
  Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.
• ALDINE
  An epithet applied to editions which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.