Word Meanings - THREEPILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.

• Thick-winded
  Affected with thick wind.
• Three-piled
  Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly.
• SERVICESERVICE
  A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible,
• THREEHANDED
  Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards.
• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• Princesse
  A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.
• Serviceable
  Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous.
• Thickened
  of Thicken
• Three-ply
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• SERVICECAPSERVICEHAT
  A cap or hat worn by officers or enlisted men when full-dress uniform, or dress uniform, is not worn. In the United States army the service cap is round, about 3½ inches high, flat-topped, with a visor. The service hat is of soft felt of khaki color,
• THREELOBED
  Having three lobes. Three-lobed leaf (Bot.), a leaf divided into three parts, the sinuses extending not more than half way to the middle, and either the parts of the sinuses being rounded.
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Princesslike
  Like a princess.
• Serviceage
  Servitude.
• Thickening
  of Thicken
• Three-coat
  Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
• Three-pointed
  Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
• SERVICEUNIFORM
  The uniform prescribed in regulations for active or routine service, in distinction from dress, full dress, etc. In the United States army it is of olive-drab woolen or khaki-colored cotton, with all metal attachments of dull-finish bronze, with the exc

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