Word Meanings - BUCKBOARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.

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• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• PLACODERMATA
  See PLACODERMI
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• RESTAGNATE
  To stagnate; to cease to flow. Wiseman.
• WAGON
  The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• RESTORATIVELY
  In a restorative manner.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• RESTIFF
  Restive.
• RESTAGNANT
  Stagnant; motionless. Boyle.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.
• PLACIT
  A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• CATHERINE WHEEL
  See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• TERRESTRIFY
  To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
• SIDEBOARD
  A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• FOUR-WHEELER
  A vehicle having four wheels.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.