Word Meanings - WRAPPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, wraps. 2. That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering. 3. Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's

Additional info about word: WRAPPER

1. One who, or that which, wraps. 2. That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering. 3. Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's wrapper.

Related words: (words related to WRAPPER)

• OUTER
  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• 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;
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• INTENDENT
  See N
• 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.
• GARMENT
  Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• WRAPPAGE
  1. The act of wrapping. 2. That which wraps; envelope; covering.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• INTENDIMENT
  Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• 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.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• SOUTER
  A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.