Word Meanings - VESTIARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry. Fuller.

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• ROBORATION
  The act of strengthening. Coles.
• ROBERDSMAN; ROBERTSMAN
  A bold, stout robber, or night thief; -- said to be so called from Robin Hood.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• VESTRY
  A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry. (more info) vestiarium, fr. vestiarius belonging to clothes, fr. vestis a 1. A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal
• ROBAND
  See ROPERAND
• ROBINIA
  A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America .
• ROBALO; ROBALITO
  Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracidæ, esp. the largest species , a valuable food fish called also snook, the smaller species being called Rob`a*li"to.
• ROBLE
  The California white oak .
• VESTRYMAN
  A member of a vestry; especially , a member other than a warden. See Vestry.
• ROBBERY
  The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2. Note: Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is committed by stealth, or privately. Syn. -- Theft; depredation; spoliation; despoliation;
• ROBERT
  See HERB
• ROB
  The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It
• ROBBIN
  A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds. Simmonds.
• ROBINET
  The chaffinch; -- called also roberd. The European robin. 2. A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.
• WARDROBE
  1. A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes. 2. Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration. Flowers that their gay wardrobe wear. Milton. With
• ROBING
  The act of putting on a robe. Robing room, a room where official robes are put on, as by judges, etc.
• ROBE
  1. An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like. Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Shak. 2. A skin of an animal,
• ROBUSTIOUS
  Robust. W. Irving. In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more robustious manner. Milton. -- Ro*bus"tious*ly, adv. -- Ro*bus"tious*ness, n.
• FULLERY
  The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
• ROBUST
  strength, a very hard kind of oak; cf. Skr. rabhas violence: cf. F. 1. Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health. 2. Violent; rough; rude.
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
• WAKE-ROBIN
  Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint . Note: In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.
• DISAPPROBATORY
  Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
• CORROBOREE
  1. A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians. 2. A song or chant made for such a festivity. 3. A
• PROBACY
  Proof; trial. Chaucer.
• AEROBIC
  Growing or thriving only in the presence of oxygen; also, pertaining to, or induced by, aërobies; as, aërobic fermentation. -- A`ër*o"bic*al*ly , adv.
• PROBATION
  1. The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof. When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, . . . he gave probation that he intended that all should prophesy and preach. Jer. Taylor. 2. Any proceeding designed
• OPPROBRIUM
  Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.
• ACROBATIC
  Pertaining to an acrobat. -- Ac`ro*bat"ic*al*ly, adv.
• PROBOSCIS
  A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk. Note: The proboscis of an elephant is a flexible muscular elongation of the nose.
• PROBOSCIDIFERA
  An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle.
• GROBIAN
  A rude or clownish person; boor; lout.
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• BEROB
  To rob; to plunder.
• EXPROBRATION
  Reproachful accusation; upbraiding. A fearful exprobration of our unworthiness. Jer. Taylor.
• STROBILA
  A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyræ,
• CIRROBRANCHIATA
  A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.
• PROBATOR
  One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence. (more info) 1. An examiner; an approver. Maydman.
• MICROBAROGRAPH
  An instrument for recording minor fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.
• PROBE
  1. To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe. 2. Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly. Dryden. The growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts, of the crown. Hallam.