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Definition of Wainscot

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 Wainscot 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...
- Heinlein's Methuselah's Children in 1958. Those hidden groups may form a wainscot society, wherein they live adjacent to mainstream society in a covert manner...
- Rhizedra lutosa, the large wainscot or Isle of Wight wainscot, is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is native to the Palearctic realm (Ireland...
- Mythimna favicolor, or Mathew's wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Charles Golding Barrett in 1896. It is...
- Archanara dissoluta, the brown-veined wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1825...
- Leucania commoides, the comma wainscot or two-lined wainscot moth, is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It was described by Achille...
- Apamea lintneri, the sand wainscot moth, is a species of moth native to North America. It is listed as a species of special concern in the US state of...
- The shoulder-striped wainscot (Leucania comma) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761. Some authors...