Word Meanings - CENTERBITCENTREBIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.

• Centerboard
  Alt. of Centreboard
• Turnbroach
  A turnspit.
• Turnkey
  A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder.
• Turnwrest
  Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent.
• TURNIPSHELL
  Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.
• Bordman
  A bordar; a tenant in bordage.
• Boride
  A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.
• Borrage
  Alt. of Borraginaceous
• Centerfire cartridge
  See under Cartridge.
• Turn-buckle
  A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc.
• Turn-outs
  of Turn-out
• BORDEAUXMIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• Borborygm
  A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels.
• TURNSICK
  Giddy. [Obs.] Bacon.
• Bordrag
  Alt. of Bordraging
• Borneol
  A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in Europe
• Borraginaceous
  See Borage, n., etc.
• Centerpiece
  Alt. of Centrepiece
• Turnbull's blue
  The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, used in dyeing, calico printing, etc. Cf. Prussian blue, under Prussian.

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