veneern.
1. One of the thin slices or slips of fine or fancy wood, or other suitable material, used in veneering.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood for other specific uses
mazera1200
waywoodware1334
piling1422
tenter-timber1562
pinwood1580
mazer wood1594
stop-rice1653
pudlay1679
puncheon1686
veneer1702
pit-wood1715
broach-wood1835
chipwood1838
matchwood1838
fretwood1881
pulpwood1881
coffin-wood1883
bur1885
spool-wood1895
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [noun] > veneering > material > piece of
veneer1702
1702 London Gaz. No. 3806/8 A Large Parcel of French Walnutt-Tree Venears will be exposed to Sale..on Thursday.
1806 Ann. Reg. (1808) 960/2 A new mode of cutting veneers, or thin boards.
1823 Macclesfield Courier in O. W. Roberts Voy. Centr. Amer. (1827) 302 The largest and finest log of mahogany ever imported into this country..sawn into vineers.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. x. 325 Put in as many veneers as the liquor will cover.
2.
a. Material prepared for use in veneering, or applied to a surface by this or some similar process.
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society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for veneering
veneer1742
veneering1813
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [noun] > veneering > material
veneer1742
veneering1813
1742 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved (ed. 3) II. ii. 43 This [ash] Wood, and Walnut-tree..makes the best of Fanneer.
1778 W. Pain Carpenter's Repository Pl. 56 A circular Plan..representing the Vaneer and Backing for the Stiles.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 586 By gluing several thicknesses of veneer upon each other.
1845 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. 4th Ser. 212 The cabinet-maker buys the veneer in this rough state.
1845 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. 4th Ser. 212 He cuts a piece of veneer.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 319 One of the legs [of the chair was] broken and the grand veneer knocked off the back.
b. in veneer, in thin plates or slips.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [phrase] > in thin plates or strips
in veneer1855
1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Wks. I. 333 Presents, ponderous with gold And ivory in veneer, commands he to be borne Unto the ships.
3. fig.
a. A merely outward show or appearance of some good quality. (Cf. varnish n.1 4.)
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun]
hue971
glozea1300
showingc1300
coloura1325
illusionc1340
frontc1374
simulationc1380
visage1390
cheera1393
sign?a1425
countenance?c1425
study?c1430
cloak1526
false colour1531
visure1531
face1542
masquery?1544
show1547
gloss1548
glass1552
affectation1561
colourableness1571
fashion1571
personage?1571
ostentation1607
disguise1632
lustrementa1641
grimace1655
varnish1662
masquerade1674
guisea1677
whitewash1730
varnish1743
maya1789
vraisemblance1802
Japan1856
veneering1865
veneer1868
affectedness1873
candy coating1885
simulance1885
window dressing1903
1868 ‘Holme Lee’ Basil Godfrey xxxii, A veneer of useful knowledge.
1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ I. iv. 44 A savage barbarian with a thin veneer of corrupt and superficial civilisation.
1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life xv. 148 [The] heartfelt courtesy..was replaced by a superficial veneer of forced politeness.
b. Without article.
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1871 Daily News 7 Dec. A gentleman with some polish—I was almost tempted to say with some veneer.
1883 Harper's Mag. July 165/2 These days of veneer and affectation in buildings and nomenclature.
4. One or other of many species of moths of the genus Crambus or family Crambidæ; a grass-moth.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > member of family Crambidae
grass moth1734
veneer1819
mother-of-pearl1850
1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 386 Crambus sanguinea. The buff-edged rosy Veneer.
1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 408 C. arborum. The yellow satin Veneer.
1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 215–9.
5. Dentistry. = veneer crown n. at Compounds below.
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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > a restoration > crown
crown1781
pivot tooth1842
crown cap1876
jacket crown1891
post crown1905
three-quarter veneer1924
veneer crown1927
veneer1930
1930 G. M. Hollenback in I. G. Nicholls Prosthetic Dentistry xlii. 653 It..does not provide as good retention, nor as good support for the abutment tooth as a partial veneer.
1965 L. A. Weinberg Atlas Crown & Bridge Prosthodontics xii. 232/1 Plastic veneers or porcelain jacket restorations should be tried in the mouth before final finishing.
1975 D. Stananought Lab. Procedures Inlays, Crowns & Bridges ii. 22 Full veneers may be constructed entirely in metal, or in a combination of metal with either acrylic resin or porcelain on the labial surface.
Compounds
attrib. and Comb., as veneer-cutter, veneer-making, veneer merchant, veneer-mill, veneer-room, veneer saw, veneer wood; veneer crown n. Dentistry a crown in which the restoration is placed over the prepared surface of a natural crown.Also veneer-press, and veneer-bending, veneer-cutting, veneer-planing, veneer-polishing, veneer-straightening machine (1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 2699–2702).
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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > a restoration > crown
crown1781
pivot tooth1842
crown cap1876
jacket crown1891
post crown1905
three-quarter veneer1924
veneer crown1927
veneer1930
1845 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. IV. 148 The ‘veneer-rooms’ at such [pianoforte] factories are places of importance.
1852 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. II. xiv. 181 He..purchased all the veneer wood which he could obtain.
1854 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts II. 900/1 In all veneer saws the edge must run very true.
1854 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts II. 900/1 In saw-mills where veneers are cut, the arrangement of the segment saw is called a veneer-mill.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Veneer-cutter, one who saws furniture wood into thin lengths, by steam-power machinery.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 138/2 These methods of veneer-making.
1894 Daily News 8 June 8/4 Witnesses..who deposed to knowing prisoner in the characters of a veneer merchant, a tankard maker, and an inventor.
1927 Dental Cosmos 69 951 The next application [of porcelain to dental restoration]..was the so-called porcelain veneer crown which was the progenitor of the present highly perfected porcelain-jacket crown.
1954 J. E. Ewing Fixed Partial Prosthesis xi. 61 The three-quarter partial veneer crown is primarily concerned with esthetics, for which function it owes its origin.
1975 D. Stananought Lab. Procedures Inlays, Crowns & Bridges ii. 21 The restoration..may be a full veneer crown (shell crown) with the restoration covering the whole of the crown, or a partial veneer crown (three-quarter crown) with the labial or buccal surface of the crown excluded from the restoration.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2016).
veneerv.
1. trans. To apply or fix as veneering.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > veneer > apply as veneering
veneer1728
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [verb (transitive)] > cover with veneer > fix as veneer
veneer1728
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Marquetry, All the Pieces thus formed with the Saw,..they vaneer or fasten each in its Place on the common Ground.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 2700/2 To veneer marble on zinc.
2. transf.1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (ed. 3) 316 The salt-water bay..was veneered over with a pellicle of ice one-eighth of an inch in thickness.absol.1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table vi. 164 He? Veneers in first-rate style. The mahogany scales off now and then.
a. To cover or face with veneer.Also occas. transf., to cover with a layer or facing of some different or superior material.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > veneer
veneer1742
fineer1765
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [verb (transitive)] > cover with veneer
veneer1742
1742 Baskerville's Pat. in Sixth Rep. Dep. Kpr. App. ii. 156 To veneir the Frames of Printings and Pictures,..the fronts of Cabinets, Buroes, &c., now usually veneired with Ebony, Whalebone, &c.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 171 The pulpit is veneered, and carved with..figures.
1845 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. IV. 206 We suppose our table..made either of solid mahogany or veneered upon deal.
1854 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts II. 899/2 Pape, of Paris, some years ago, veneered a piano-forte entirely with ivory.
1874 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 758 Mr. Burges' proposal to veneer the lower part..with marble is objectionable.
b. fig. To invest with a merely external or specious appearance of some commendable or attractive quality. Usu. const. with.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)] > improve appearance
paintc1390
set1540
daub1543
plaster1546
varnish1571
to gild over1574
adorn1589
parget1592
glaze1605
apparel1615
pranka1616
lustre1627
candidate1628
varnish1641
lacquer1688
whitewash1703
tinsel1748
duff1750
fineer1765
veneer1847
superficialize1851
gloss1879
window dress1913
beglamour1926
sportswash2012
1847 Tennyson Princess Prol. 6 And one the Master, as a rogue in grain Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory.
1868 ‘Holme Lee’ Basil Godfrey lxvi, Another lady of neglected education, whom..Elizabeth was veneering with thin plates of knowledge.
1872 J. C. Jeaffreson Brides & Bridals I. viii. 126 Paganism thinly veneered with Christianity.
c. To serve as a veneer to (something).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)]
showc1175
feignc1340
clothe1393
colourc1400
gloze1430
pretence1548
whiten1583
maska1593
vizard1628
tissuea1639
to whiten up1746
act1790
veneer1875
histrionize1876
window dress1913
1875 M. Collins Sweet & Twenty II. ii. i. 175 He returned with a vast amount of polish, which, however, veneered a good deal of conceit.
Derivatives
veˈneered adj. Also transf. (in quot. 1889) and fig. (in quot. 1884).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > veneered
veneered1766
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [adjective] > veneered
veneered1766
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adjective] > having or given specious appearance
paintedc1390
daubedc1400
cloakeda1500
fucate1531
fucated1535
coloured1537
flim-flam1577
tinsel1595
varnisheda1616
punkish1616
white-limeda1631
pargeted1645
tinselled1651
vizarded1663
lacquered1687
glossy1698
catchpenny1705
catch-shilling1808
tinselly1811
whitewashed1859
shoddy1882
veneered1884
hollowed-out1890
face-lifted1941
suede shoe1952
cosmetic1955
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 18 A carved pulpit, a veneered sounding-board.
1846 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. IV. 214 They are placed so that the veneered surface shall be grasped between the two clamps.
1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 140 The veneered furniture has ousted the more solid, trustworthy articles.
1884 Harper's Mag. Oct. 798/1 The thinly veneered Berserkir in the English race.
1889 Textile News 5 Apr. 26/2 The Hat Trade... Large quantities of coloured veneered goods are in demand from abroad.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2016).
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