Word Meanings - WASHSTAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.

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• HOLD
  The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• BASINET
  See BASCINET
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• WASHHOUSE
  An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
• WASHBOARD
  A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di (more info) 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• HOLDBACK
  1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• WASHSTAND
  A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• PITCHER
  1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically , the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. Mortimer.
• HOLDER
  One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• OTHER
  Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer.
• WASHY
  1. Watery; damp; soft. "Washy ooze." Milton. 2. Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions. A polish . . . not over thin and washy. Sir H. Wotton. 3. Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely
• SWASHY
  Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• AWASH
  Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.
• INHOLD
  To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• HIGH-HOLDER
  The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• BLANCH HOLDING
  A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.