Word Meanings - THORPTHORPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe. "Within a little thorp I staid." Fairfax. Then thorpe and byre arose in fire. Tennyson.

• Smallness
  The quality or state of being small.
• Withinside
  In the inner parts; inside.
• Smallpox
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thi
• COUNTRYBANK
  A national bank not in a reserve city. [Colloq., U. S.]
• Hamleted
  Confined to a hamlet.
• COUNTRYBASE
  Same as Prison base.
• Smallsword
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• COUNTRYCLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• COUNTRYCOUSIN
  A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.
• Country-base
  Same as Prison base.
• Little-ease
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.

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