Word Meanings - THEAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old.

• SHEEPSHEARER
  One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
• THREESCORE
  Thrice twenty; sixty.
• Sheep-faced
  Over-bashful; sheepish.
• Three-ply
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• Three-pointed
  Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
• THREECOAT
  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.
• THREESIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• 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-quarter
  Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.
• THREECOLOR
  Designating, or pert. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, as red, yellow, and blue.
• THREESQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• Sheep-headed
  Silly; simple-minded; stupid.
• Three-cornered
  Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• Three-score
  Thrice twenty; sixty.
• THREECORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem.
• THREETORQUESYSTEMOFCONTROL
  Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.

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