wainscot, wainscoting, wainscotting
(noun) wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room
wainscoting, wainscotting
(noun) a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
wainscoting (usually uncountable, plural wainscotings)
Alternative spelling of wainscotting
• wainscot (countable)
wainscoting
Alternative spelling of wainscotting
Source: Wiktionary
Wain"scot*ing, n.
1. The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel.
2. The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork.
Wain"scot, n. Etym: [OD. waeghe-schot, D. wagen-schot, a clapboard, fr. OD. waeg, weeg, a wall (akin to AS. wah; cf. Icel. veggr) + schot a covering of boards (akin to E. shot, shoot).]
1. Oaken timber or boarding. [Obs.] A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree. Urquhart. Inclosed in a chest of wainscot. J. Dart.
2. (Arch.)
Definition: A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.
3. 3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidæ.
Note: They are reddish or yellowish, streaked or lined with black and white. Their larvæ feed on grasses and sedges.
Wain"scot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wainscoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wainscoting.]
Definition: To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall. Music soundeth better in chambers wainscoted than hanged. Bacon. The other is wainscoted with looking-glass. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
