Word Meanings - DIVINITYCALF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• Oftenness
  Frequency.
• 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.
• 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.
• Brownism
  The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists.
• 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.
• Brownist
  A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.
• Oftentimes
  Frequently; often; many times.
• Workaday
  See Workyday.
• Workmen
  of Workman

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