Word Meanings - UNGIRD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload. He ungirded his camels. Gen. xxiv. 32.

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• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• UNLOAD
  1. To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast. 2. Hence, to relieve from anything onerous. 3. To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel.
• UNGIRD
  To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload. He ungirded his camels. Gen. xxiv. 32.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• LOOSESTRIFE
  The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
• UNLOADER
  One who, or that which, unloads; a device for unloading, as hay from a wagon.
• CAMELSHAIR
  Of camel's hair. Camel's-hair pencil, a small brush used by painters in water colors, made of camel's hair or similar materials. -- Camel's-hair shawl. A name often given to a cashmere shawl. See Cashmere shawl under Cashmere.
• GIRDLESTEAD
  1. That part of the body where the girdle is worn. Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman. 2. The lap. There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne.
• GIRDLER
  An American longicorn beetle which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ. (more info) 1. One who girdles. 2. A
• LOOSENESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
• LOOSELY
  In a loose manner.
• LOOSENER
  One who, or that which, loosens.
• GIRDLE
  A griddle.
• UNBIND
  To remove a band from; to set free from shackles or fastenings; to unite; to unfasten; to loose; as, unbind your fillets; to unbind a prisoner's arms; to unbind a load. (more info) Etym:
• SEA GIRDLES
  A kind of kelp with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
• ENGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• OUTLOOSE
  A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
• UNLOOSE
  To make loose; to loosen; to set free. Shak.
• BEGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle.