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81 words match “ARRAS”

ARRAS n. 2 definitions

screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures. Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. Cowper. Behind the arras I'll convey myself. Shak.

A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery.

A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.

ARRASWISE; ARRASWAYS adv.

Placed in such a position as to exhibit the top and two sides, the corner being in front; -- said of a rectangular form. Encyc. Brit. Cussans.

A resin, called also galipot.

The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus. Balfour.

CHIVARRAS; CHIVARROS n.

Leggings. [Mex. & Southwestern U. S.]

To disembarrass; to relieve. [R.]

DISEMBARRASS v.

To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate. To disembarrass himself of his companion. Sir W. Scott.

DISEMBARRASSMENT n.

Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.

EMBARRASS v. 4 definitions

or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator.

EMBARRASSMENT n. 2 definitions

A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness. The embarrassment which inexperienced minds have often to express themselves upon paper. W. Irving. The embarrassments tom co…

SARRASIN; SARRASINE n.

A portcullis, or herse. [Written also sarasin.]

See Trass. [Obs.]

UNEMBARRASSED a. 4 definitions

Not embarrassed. Specifically: --

UNEMBARRASSMENT n.

Freedom from embarrassment.

Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing. A long and awkward process. Macaulay. An awkward affair is one that has gone wrong, and is difficult to adjust. C. J. Smith.

To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of. [Local, U. S.]

One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.

Free from embarrassment; detention, etc. The cruel corporal whispered in my ear, Five pounds, if rightly tipped, would set me clear. Gay. Clear breach. See under Breach, n., 4. -- Clear days (Law.), days reckoned from one day to another, excluding both the first and last day; as, from Sunday to Sunday there are six cl…