Buckram: Definition and part of speech

Buckram

  1. v. t. To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.
  2. n. A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
  3. n. A plant. See Ramson.
  4. a. Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.
  5. a. Stiff; precise.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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