Word Meanings - CRESOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids. [Called also cresylic acid.]

• Three-handed
  Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards.
• Three-valved
  Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.
• THREEPILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Phenolate
  A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.
• Three-leafed
  Alt. of Three-leaved
• Three-way
  Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
• THREEPLY
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Resemblable
  Admitting of being compared; like.
• Three-leaved
  Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade.
• CALLIGRAPHICCALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• THREEPOINTED
  Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.

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