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Wainscot

Wainscot (wainscot)
n.(?)
Wain"scot
[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. A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.
  3. Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidæ.

    * They are reddish or yellowish, streaked or lined with black and white. Their larvæ feed on grasses and sedges.

Wainscot

Wainscot (wainscot)
v. t.
Wain"scot
  1. 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.













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