Word Meanings - GORGET - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.
- Double-dye
To dye again or twice over. - DOUBLEBEATVALVE
See under Valve. - Doubler
One who, or that which, doubles. - DOUBLEQUICK
Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march. - Formalist
One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion. - Formful
Creative; imaginative. - Formula
A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said. - Breastband
A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding. - Breastwheel
A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on th - Plate-gilled
Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks. - Defendant
Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. - Whether
Which (of two); which one (of two); -- used interrogatively and relatively. - Double-dyed
Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a double-dyed villain. - DOUBLEBREASTED
Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat. - Double-ripper
A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other. - DOUBLERIPPER
A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other. [Local, U. S.] - Formalities
of Formality - Formic
Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether. - Formularistic
Pertaining to, or exhibiting, formularization.
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