Word Meanings - WINDLESTRAW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis.

• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
• MAKINGIRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• ROPESEND
  To punish with a rope's end.
• Agrostis
  A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.
• Plaited
  of Plait
• SPICATESPICATED
  Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes. Lee.
• Makebate
  One who excites contentions and quarrels.
• Plaiting
  of Plait
• Make-belief
  A feigning to believe; make believe.
• Plaiter
  One who, or that which, plaits.
• Grassing
  of Grass
• Make-believe
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
• Grassation
  A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting.

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