Word Meanings - CERBERUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A monster, in the shape of a three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly.

• Three-ply
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• HEADMOLDSHOTHEADMOULDSHOT
  An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures. Dunglison.
• Guardhouse
  A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
• THREEQUARTER
  Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures. Three-quarter length, a portrait showing the figure to the hips only.
• Headache
  Pain in the head; cephalalgia.
• Headiness
  The quality of being heady.
• Headrace
  See Race, a water course.
• Headwork
  Mental labor.
• Three-pointed
  Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
• HEADWATER
  The source and upper part of a stream; -- commonly used in the plural; as, the headwaters of the Missouri.
• Guardian
  One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.
• THREESCORE
  Thrice twenty; sixty.
• Headachy
  Afflicted with headache.
• Headland
  A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.
• Headroom
  See Headway, 2.
• 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-quarter
  Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.
• Custodian
  One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent.

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