Word Meanings - SPARTERIE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Articles made of the blades or fiber of the Lygeum Spartum and Stipa (or Macrochloa) tenacissima, kinds of grass used in Spain and other countries for making ropes, mats, baskets, nets, and mattresses. Loudon.

• FIBEREDFIBRED
  Having fibers; made up of fibers.
• Grassless
  Destitute of grass.
• Makeshift
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
• Make-up
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.
• FIBERFACEDFIBREFACED
  Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
• Grassplot
  A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn.
• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• FIBERLESSFIBRELESS
  Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.
• Bladesmith
  A sword cutler.
• Grass tree
  An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat
• GRASSGROWN
  Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
• Countries
  of Country
• Making-iron
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• MAKEANDBREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• Makable
  Capable of being made.
• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.

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