Word Meanings - LOOKINGGLASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.

• Placophora
  A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
• Backslide
  To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
• Southcottian
  A follower of Joanna Southcott (1750-1814), an Englishwoman who, professing to have received a miraculous calling, preached and prophesied, and committed many impious absurdities.
• Backwash
  To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.
• Southly
  Southerly.
• Glasshouse
  A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
• Southwestwardly
  Toward the southwest.
• Therein
  In that or this place, time, or thing; in that particular or respect.
• Placard
  A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Placentae
  of Placenta
• LOVESICKNESS
  The state of being love-sick.
• Back door
  A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way.
• Placidness
  The quality or state of being placid.
• Backlog
  A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth.
• Backpiece
  Alt. of Backplate
• Quicksilver
  The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.
• Backslider
  One who backslides.
• Southdown
  Of or pertaining to the South Downs, a range of pasture hills south of the Thames, in England.

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