Word Meanings - DIVINITYCALF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books.

• Workingmen
  of Workingman
• BROWNBILL
  A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak. Note: The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part hook
• Brownie
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• Oftenness
  Frequency.
• Oftensith
  Frequently; often.
• Working
  of Work
• Workingman
  A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
• BROWNRACE
  The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.
• Brownish
  Somewhat brown.
• Oftentide
  Frequently; often.
• Workable
  Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.
• Workless
  Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.
• BROWNTHRUSH
  A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
• Bookseller
  One who sells books.
• Brownism
  The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists.
• Oftentimes
  Frequently; often; many times.
• Workaday
  See Workyday.
• Workmen
  of Workman
• WITHOUTDOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. [Obs.] "Her without-door form." Shak.

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