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110 words match “ETCHER”

ETCHER n.
One who etches.
FETCHER n.
One wo fetches or brings.
FLETCHER n.
One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows. [Obs.] Mortimer.
SKETCHER n.
One who sketches.
STRETCHER n. 10 definitions
One who, or that which, stretches.
A-MORNINGS adv.
rning; every morning. [Obs.] And have such pleasant walks into the woods A-mornings. J. Fletcher.
ALFERES n.
An ensign; a standard bearer. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.
ALICANT n.
d of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain. J. Fletcher.
ALPEN a.
Of or pertaining to the Alps. [R.] "The Alpen snow." J. Fletcher.
AMBULANCE n.
wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.
APPEAR n.
Appearance. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.
AYME n.
of the ejaculation "Ay me !" [Obs.] See Ay, interj. "Aymees and hearty heigh-hoes." J. Fletcher.
BEND n.
urn; purpose; inclination; ends. [Obs.] Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend. Fletcher.
BEWHORE v.
To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of. J. Fletcher.
BEYOND prep.
of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher.
BLACK v.
s teeth white, therefore they will black theirs. Hakluyt. Sins which black thy soul. J. Fletcher.
BLADDER v.
To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.
BLADE v.
e. As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. P. Fletcher.
BLIND v.
e vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. Her beauty all the rest did blind. P. Fletcher.
BOND n.
the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its…
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