Word Meanings - YARDSTICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.

• Lengthening
  of Lengthen
• 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.
• THREEHANDED
  Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards.
• Lengthen
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out.
• Stickfuls
  of Stickful
• Three-cornered
  Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• Three-quarter
  Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.
• 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.
• Lengthful
  Long.
• Stickful
  As much set type as fills a composing stick.
• Three-decker
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• Three-score
  Thrice twenty; sixty.
• THREEMILE
  Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt (the three-mile belt or zone) of three miles included in territorial waters (which see) of a state.
• Lengthily
  In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.
• Stickiness
  The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.
• Three-flowered
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.

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