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WAINSCOT, n. In building, timber-work serving to line the walls of a room, being made in panels.
WAINSCOT, v.t.
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. A wooden lining or boarding of
the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.
Any one of numerous species
of European moths of the family Leucanidæ.
* They are reddish or yellowish, streaked or lined with black and white. Their larvæ feed on grasses and sedges. 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. | ||||||||