Word Meanings - KNIFEEDGEKNIFEEDGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. Knife-edge file. See Illust. of File.

Piecework
Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed.
Steelhead
A North Pacific salmon (Salmo Gairdneri) found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
Restaurant
An eating house.
OTHERWHILEOTHERWHILES
At another time, or other times; sometimes; [Archaic] Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more. Holland.
Restitutor
One who makes restitution.
Restorement
Restoration.
Restrictive
Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.
Illustrable
Capable of illustration.
Scalenohedron
A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.
Knife-edge
A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction.
Serviceable
Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous.
Otherness
The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
Smooth
Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.
Possible
Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, poss
Steeliness
The quality of being steely.
Restaurate
To restore.
RESTCURE
Treatment of severe nervous disorder, as neurasthenia, by rest and isolation with systematic feeding and the use of massage and electricity.
Restive
Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back.
Restorer
One who, or that which, restores.
Restringed
of Restringe

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Word Meanings - KNIFEEDGEKNIFEEDGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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