Word Meanings - UNFINISHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting.

• Roughhewer
  One who roughhews.
• Roughwork
  To work over coarsely, without regard to nicety, smoothness, or finish.
• Touchwood
  Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk.
• Castle-guard
  The guard or defense of a castle.
• Castration
  The act of castrating.
• TOUCHNEEDLE
  A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
• Housebuilder
  One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.
• Housewife
  The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
• Picturer
  One who makes pictures; a painter.
• Roughhewn
  Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.
• Roughwrought
  Wrought in a rough, unfinished way; worked over coarsely.
• Castigated
  of Castigate
• Castlery
  The government of a castle.
• CASTILESOAP
  A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.
• Castrato
  A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano.
• TOUCHPAPER
  Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
• Housecarl
  A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.

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