Word Meanings - TWELFTH-CAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.

Related words: (words related to TWELFTH-CAKE)

• NIGHT-FARING
  Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
• NIGHTLY
  At night; every night.
• NIGHTMAN
  One whose business is emptying privies by night.
• DISTRIBUTIVENESS
  Quality of being distributive.
• TWELFTHTIDE
  The twelfth day after Christmas; Epiphany; -- called also Twelfth-day.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• FRIENDSHIP
  1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• NIGHTLONG
  Lasting all night.
• DISTRIBUTABLE
  Capable of being distributed. Sir W. Jones.
• NIGHTSHADE
  A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna
• NIGHTLESS
  Having no night.
• NIGHTTIME
  The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to Ant: daytime.
• DISTRIBUTIVE
  A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral.
• NIGHT-BLOOMING
  Blooming in the night. Night-blooming cereus. See Note under Cereus.
• NIGHTISH
  Of or pertaining to night.
• DISTRIBUTION
  A resolving a whole into its parts. (more info) 1. The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena
• DISTRIBUTARY
  Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.
• NIGHT LETTER; NIGHT LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE
• DISTRIBUTER
  One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser. Addison.
• NIGHT
  OS. & OHG. naht, G. nacht, Icel. n, Sw. natt, Dan. nat, Goth. nachts, Lith. naktis, Russ. noche, W. nos, Ir. nochd, L. nox, noctis, gr. 1. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp.,
• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• ALLNIGHT
  Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• MIDNIGHT SUN
  The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer.
• SEVENNIGHT
  A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
• FORTNIGHT
  The space of fourteen days; two weeks. (more info) nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also,
• MIDNIGHT
  The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shak.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• ALE-KNIGHT
  A pot companion.
• FORTNIGHTLY
  Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication. -- adv.