Word Meanings - CAPON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. Shak. The merry thought of a capon. W. Irving.
Related words: (words related to CAPON)
- CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - TABLER
1. One who boards. 2. One who boards others for hire. B. Jonson. - TABLEAU VIVANT
See 2 - TABLEMAN
A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. Bacon. - FLESHMENT
The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak. - MERRY-ANDREW
One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who - THOUGHT
imp. & p. p. of Think. - FLESHHOOD
The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning. - IMPROVER
One who, or that which, improves. - THOUGHTLESS
1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly, - MERRYMAKING
Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly. - GELDER
One who gelds or castrates. - FLESHINESS
The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton. - CASTRATE
1. To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter. 2. To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent - TABLESPOON
A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc. - GELD
Money; tribute; compensation; ransom. Note: This word occurs in old law books in composition, as in danegeld, or danegelt, a tax imposed by the Danes; weregeld, compensation for the life of a man, etc. - CAPONIZE
To castrate, as a fowl. - FLESHER
1. A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay. 2. A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife. - MERRY
mirie, murie, merry, pleasant, AS. merge, myrige, pleasant; cf. murge, adv.; prob. akin to OHG. murg, short, Goth. gamaúrgjan to shorten; cf. L. murcus a coward, who cuts off his thumb to escape military service; the Anglo-Saxon and - FLESHLY
1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." Denham. 2. Animal; not Dryden. 3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." 2 Cor. i. 12. Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms. Milton. - MOUNTABLE
Such as can be mounted. - IMPALATABLE
Unpalatable. - MISINTERPRETABLE
Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood. - POSTABLE
Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu. - UNWARRANTABLE
Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv. - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable. - ACCEPTABLE
Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us. - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - INTESTABLE
Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone. - MARKETABLENESS
Quality of being marketable. - COUNTABLE
Capable of being numbered. - CONTRADICTABLE
Capable of being contradicting. - INEXPECTABLE
Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall. - IMPERSCRUTABLE
Not capable of being searched out; inscrutable. -- Im`per*scru"ta*ble*ness, n. - DISCREDITABLE
Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv. - FERMENTABLE
Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable. - CONSTABLESS
The wife of a constable.