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.
Related words: (words related to BARKER)
- 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.