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Definition of Wainscots

Wainscot
Wainscot Wain"scot, n. [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.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanid[ae]. Note: They are reddish or yellowish, streaked or lined with black and white. Their larv[ae] feed on grasses and sedges.
Wainscot
Wainscot Wain"scot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wainscoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wainscoting.] 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.

Meaning of Wainscots from wikipedia

- The term wainscot (UK: /ˈweɪnskət/ WAYN-skət or US: /ˈweɪnskɒt/ WAYN-skot) originally applied to high quality riven oak boards. Wainscot oak came from...
- Look up wainscot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wainscot is a panelling, often wooden, applied to an interior wall of a building. Wainscot may also...
- A wainscot chair is a type of chair which was common in early 17th-century England and colonial America. Usually made of oak, the term can be used in a...
- share the pale buffish ground colour and prominent venation of other "wainscots" but has much stronger dark markings than most of its relatives, including...
- respective setting. These hidden groups are sometimes referred to as a wainscot society, wherein they live parallel to mainstream society in a covert manner...
- Wainscott is a hamlet in the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the South Fork of Long Island. As of the 2010 United States...
- Retrieved 17 November 2024. Anne Le Lievre, Kerrie (2003). "Wizards and wainscots: generic structures and genre themes in the Harry Potter series". CNET...
- Mythimna litoralis, the s**** wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. A strictly coastal species, it is found in Europe and Morocco in areas close...
- Monochroa palustrellus, the wainscot neb, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in from western, central and northern Europe to the Ural Mountains...
- abutting of course on the river, and literally overrun with rats. Its wainscoted rooms, and its rotten floors and staircase, and the old grey rats swarming...