Word Meanings - HAMMERDRESSED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.

• Hammerhead
  A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.
• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• Stonegall
  See Stannel.
• Facetious
  Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.
• Surfacer
  A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
• Facinorous
  Atrociously wicked.
• STONESTILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• Factoring
  of Factor
• Faculae
  Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere.
• Hammerkop
  A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Stoned
  of Stone
• Stonehatch
  The ring plover, or dotterel.
• Facette
  See Facet, n.
• FACULTATIVE
  Having the power to live under different conditions; as, a facultative parasite, a plant which is normally saprophytic, but which may exist wholly or in part as a parasite; -- opposed to obligate. 3. (Physiol.) Pertaining to a faculty or faculties. I
• Facound
  Speech; eloquence.
• SURFACELOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• Factorage
  The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.
• Facular
  Of or pertaining to the faculae.

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