Word Meanings - BREVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure (as thus: / ), but is now made oval, with a line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides; -- formerly much used for choir service.

• Staffman
  A workman employed in silk throwing.
• Three-piled
  Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly.
• SQUARETOES
  A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly. Thackeray.
• THREESCORE
  Thrice twenty; sixty.
• Equalize
  To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.
• Sidesaddle
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted.
• Three-ply
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• THREECOAT
  Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
• THREESIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• Equalizer
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• Sidesmen
  of Sidesman
• Three-coat
  Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
• Three-pointed
  Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
• THREECOLOR
  Designating, or pert. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, as red, yellow, and blue.
• THREESQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• Character
  A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.
• Dotterel
  Decayed.

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