† buildressn.
Obsolete.
A female builder.
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buildress1569
1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 12 b Dido, the first buildresse of Carthage.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. ix. 184 Sherah..the greatest Buildress in the whole Bible.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 657 Tragedianesses, sonneteeresses, or other ‘buildresses of the lofty rhyme’.
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n.1569- to wave down
- to wave goodbye
- to wave in the wind
- to wave one's freak flag high
- to wave one's way
- to wave oneself
- to waver as, like, with the wind
- to waver with or in the wind
- to wax eloquent
- to wax forth
- to wax in age or eld
- to wax lyrical
- to wax out
- to wax to man's estate
- to wax up
- to weaken the hands of
- to wear a crown, diadem, mitre, palm, the purple
- to wear a forker
- to wear a green bonnet
- to wear a wire
- to wear another to a shadow
- to wear buff
- to wear down
- to wear goat'goat horns
- to wear goat's horns