[ From Beder or Bidar a town in India. ] A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [ Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by bowlders. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by bowlders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Embroidery. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The golden broidery tender Milkah wove. Tickell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Commanderies [ F. commanderie. ] 1. The office or rank of a commander. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A district under the administration of a military commander or governor. [ R. ] Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. camarederie. ] The spirit of comradeship; comradeship. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

“Certainly”, said Dunham, with the comradery of the smoker. W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as doddering{ 1 }.
Syn. -- doddering, shaking, tottering, tottery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A place where rags are bought and kept for sale. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Embroideries 1. Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Founderies [ F. fonderie, fr. fondre. See Found to cast, and cf. Foundry. ] Same as Foundry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display. [ R. ] “Tarnished gaudery.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. Glide. ] Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones. R. D. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Leather workers' materials. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Grindery warehouse, a shop where leather workers' materials and tools are kept on sale. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The tricks of a jade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OE. larderie. ] A larder. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Covered or filled with mold; consisting of, or resembling, mold. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. “The powdery snow.” Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Pruderies [ F. pruderie. See Prude. ] The quality or state of being prudish; excessive or affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ AS. slidor. See Slide, v. t. ] Slippery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To a drunk man the way is slidder. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

King Henry the Eighth erected a noble studdery. Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thundery a. Accompanied with thunder; thunderous. [ R. ] “Thundery weather.” Pennant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To subject to the yoke; to make subject. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for growing weeds. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]