Counterflory: alternatives and connections

A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles.…

Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.

Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of pl…

Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description.

free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms

Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines,…

The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper.

Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that…

Surmounted by an ordinary; as, a lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut.

within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange; "familiar ordinary objects found in every home"; "a familiar ever…

A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in whic…

of Fleur-de-lis

Finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. of a cross so decorated.

Having the head adorned with flowers.

A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other spe…

Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action of the limbs is usually weaker than on the other side; -…