Word Meanings - BROADCLOTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.

• Double-ender
  A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end.
• Woolenet
  A thin, light fabric of wool.
• Double-shade
  To double the natural darkness of (a place).
• DOUBLEEYED
  Having a deceitful look. [R.] "Deceitful meanings is double- eyed." Spenser.
• Facete
  Facetious; witty; humorous.
• SMOOTHCHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• Facility
  The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
• THREEPORT
  Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.
• Factor
  One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign facto
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Factum
  A man's own act and deed
• Callot
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte.
• Smoothen
  To make smooth.
• Clothred
  Clottered.
• Three-nerved
  Having three nerves.
• Double-entendre
  A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.
• CALLIGRAPHICCALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• Doublet
  Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• Facetiae
  Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.

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