Word Meanings - VILLOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Furnished or clothed with villi. (more info) 1. Abounding in, or covered with, fine hairs, or a woolly substance; shaggy with soft hairs; nappy.
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- VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - FURNISHMENT
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel. - SUBSTANCE
To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - CLOTHESLINE
A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - COVERTNESS
Secrecy; privacy. - COVERER
One who, or that which, covers. - CLOTHESHORSE
A frame to hang clothes on. - COVERCHIEF
A covering for the head. Chaucer. - COVERTLY
Secretly; in private; insidiously. - COVER
operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing 1. To overspread the surface of with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And - ABOUND
1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed - CLOTHIER
1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes. - COVERING
Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering - COVERAGE
The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance. - COVER-SHAME
Something used to conceal infamy. Dryden. - CLOTHING
See CARD (more info) 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - BEDCLOTHES
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak. - HEARSECLOTH
A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - NECKCLOTH
A piece of any fabric worn around the neck. - BROADCLOTH
A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide. - UNCLOTHED
Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym: - DISCOVERTURE
A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery. - CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum. - SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
The substance of the medullary sheath. - SADDLECLOTH
A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing. - DISCOVERABLE
Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry. - DISCOVERY
1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next