Word Meanings - BULLEN-NAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.

• Short-winded
  Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.
• SHORTDATED
  Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
• Roundfish
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes.
• Shortened /
  of Shorten
• Shortening
  of Shorten
• Shortwing
  Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.
• SHORTHANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• Roundhead
  A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
• Shorten
  To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
• Short-wited
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• SHORTJOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• Roundheaded
  Having a round head or top.
• Shankbeer
  See Schenkbeer.
• Shortener
  One who, or that which, shortens.
• SHORTLIVED
  Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.
• Lacquered
  of Lacquer

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