Word Meanings - CANCELIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. Nares. He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To cancelier. Massinger. (more info) orig. to cross the legs so as not to fall; from the same word as E.
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- BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - CROSSLY
Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor. - WANTLESS
Having no want; abundant; fruitful. - WANTON
wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness." - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - CROSSJACK
The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast. - CROSSOPTERYGIAN
Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n. - CROSSBRED
Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel. - CROSS-STONE
See STAUROTIDE - CROSS-ARMED
With arms crossed. - FLIGHTER
A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight. - CROSSGRAINED
1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon. - WANTWIT
One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak. - CROSSBREED
1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. - CROSS-VAULTING
Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults. - CROSSLEGGED
Having the legs crossed. - FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry - CROSSHEAD
A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it - CROSS-BUTTOCK
A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. - LACROSSE
A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - ANGWANTIBO
A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail. - ENFORCIBLE
That may be enforced. - PASSIVE FLIGHT
Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.