Word Meanings - BEAUMONTAGUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.
- Whitewort
Wild camomile. - Whitsour
A sort of apple. - Whity-brown
Of a color between white and brown. - WHITEELEPHANT
Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang] - Make-up
The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. - WHITEPOT
A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot. King. - Whitebeam
The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves. - White friar
A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite. - Whiteside
The golden-eye. - Whitflaw
Whitlow. - Whitster
A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester. - Filling
of Fill - AMMONIACAMMONIACAL
Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas. Ammoniacal engine, an engine in which the vapor of ammonia is used as the motive force. -- Sal ammoniac Etym: [L. sal ammoniacus], the salt usually called - Linsey-woolsey
Cloth made of linen and wool, mixed. - WHITEEYE
Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-e - Makeweight
That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap. - WHITESLAVE
A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution. - Whitebeard
An old man; a graybeard.
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