Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wainscot"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
wainscot
n 1: panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is
finished differently from the rest [syn: {dado}]
2: wooden panel used to line the walls of a room [syn: {wainscoting},
{wainscotting}]
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