These are the meanings of the letters PAINPROOF when you unscramble them.
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Apron (n.)
An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.
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Apron (n.)
Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;
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Apron (n.)
The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck.
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Apron (n.)
A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot.
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Apron (n.)
A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon.
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Apron (n.)
A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.
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Apron (n.)
A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.
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Apron (n.)
A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.
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Apron (n.)
The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.
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Apron (n.)
A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing.
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Apron (n.)
The infolded abdomen of a crab.
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Infra (adv.)
Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix.
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Noria (n.)
A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel.
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Orpin (n.)
A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.
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Orpin (n.)
The orpine.
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Piano (a. & adv.)
Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)
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Piano (a.)
Alt. of Pianoforte
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Proof (n.)
Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
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Proof (n.)
That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
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Proof (n.)
The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
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Proof (n.)
Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
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Proof (n.)
A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet.
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Proof (n.)
A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.
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Proof (v. t.)
Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.
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Proof (a.)
Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.
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Proof (a.)
Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.
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Proof (a.)
Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.