Word Meanings - COD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A husk; a pod; as, a peascod. Mortimer. 2. A small bag or pouch. Halliwell. 3. The scortum. Dunglison. 4. A pillow or cushion. Halliwell.

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• POUCH
  1. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc. 2. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch; as: A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule. A sac or bag for carrying
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• PEASCOD
  The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
• CUSHIONLESS
  Hot furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• PILLOW LACE
  Lace made by hand with bobbins on a pillow.
• CUSHION TIRE
  A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside.
• POUCH-MOUTHED
  Having a pouch mouth; blobber-lipped.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• CUSHIONET
  A little cushion.
• PILLOWY
  Like a pillow. Keats.
• PILLOW
  A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. (more info) 1. Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other
• CUSHION
  cuissin, F. coussin, fr. LL. culcitinum, dim. of L. culcita cushion, mattress, pillow. See Quilt, and cf. Counterpoint a 1. A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad. Two
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• PILLOWCASE
  A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of white linen or cotton cloth.
• CUSHIONY
  Like a cushion; soft; pliable. A flat and cushiony noce. Dickens.
• PILLOWED
  Provided with a pillow or pillows; having the head resting on, or as on, a pillow. Pillowedon buckler cold and hard. Sir W. Scott.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• CAPOUCH
  See CAPOCH
• SLATTERPOUCH
  A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise. Gayton.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• CORONARY CUSHION
  A cushionlike band of vascular tissue at the upper border of the wall of the hoof of the horse and allied animals. It takes an important part in the secretion of the horny walls.