Word Meanings - TORCHWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper.

• Commonly
  Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.
• Serval
  An African wild cat (Felis serval) of moderate size. It has rather long legs and a tail of moderate length. Its color is tawny, with black spots on the body and rings of black on the tail.
• Servilely
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• Torchlight
  The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession.
• TORCHONLACE
  a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Commonness
  State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.
• Servaline
  Related to, or resembling, the serval.
• Servileness
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• Torchon lace
  a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery.
• TORCHONPAPER
  Paper with a rough surface; esp., handmade paper of great hardness for the use of painters in water colors.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Commonplace
  Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
• Servant
  One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master
• Servility
  The quality or state of being servile; servileness.
• Torchwood
  The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.
• TORCHRACE
  A race by men carrying torches, as in ancient Greece.

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