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.

• Whiteside
  The golden-eye.
• 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.
• Whitesmith
  One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith.
• 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.

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