Word Meanings - SILKSTOCKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; -- chiefly applied to men, often by way of reproach. [They] will find their levees crowded with silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of officers without soldiers. Jefferson.

• Stockade
  A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.
• Stock-still
  Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still.
• STOCKSTILL
  Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne.
• Applier
  He who, or that which, applies.
• Dresser
  One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
• Dress goods
  A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.
• Oftenness
  Frequency.
• Stockaded
  of Stockade
• Stockwork
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• Wearied
  of Weary
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  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.
• Appliment
  Application.
• Dressiness
  The state of being dressy.
• Oftensith
  Frequently; often.
• Stockading
  of Stockade
• Wearying
  of Weary
• WITHOUTDOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. [Obs.] "Her without-door form." Shak.

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