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Word Meanings - BARKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The spotted redshank. (more info) 1. An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably. 2. One who stands at the doors of shops to urg 3. A pistol. Dickens.

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  • ANIMALIZATION
    1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
  • ANIMALCULISM
    The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
  • ANIMALITY
    Animal existence or nature. Locke.
  • ANIMALLY
    Physically. G. Eliot.
  • ANIMALNESS
    Animality.
  • DOORSTEAD
    Entrance or place of a door. Bp. Warburton.
  • DOORSTEP
    The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.
  • DOORSTONE
    The stone forming a threshold.
  • ANIMALCULIST
    1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
  • SPOTTEDNESS
    State or quality of being spotted.
  • ANIMAL
    1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
  • DOORSILL
    The sill or threshold of a door.
  • ANIMALCULE
    An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
  • DOORSTOP
    The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.
  • ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.
  • PISTOL
    The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, -- now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names. See Illust. of Revolver. Pistol carbine, a firearm with a removable but- piece, and thus capable of being used either as
  • SPOTTED
    Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." Spenser. Spotted fever , a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree , an Australian tree ; -- so
  • PISTOLEER
    One who uses a pistol. Carlyle.
  • SPOTTER
    One who spots.
  • HENCE
    ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
  • EPISTOLET
    A little epistle. Lamb.
  • HEREHENCE
    From hence.
  • WHENCEFORTH
    From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
  • EPISTOLAR
    Epistolary. Dr. H. More.
  • EPISTOLIZE
    To write epistles.
  • THENCEFROM
    From that place.
  • EPISTOLIC; EPISTOLICAL
    Pertaining to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.
  • EPISTOLIZER
    A writer of epistles.

 

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