Word Meanings - CHARIOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc. First moved the chariots, after whom the foot. Cowper. 2. A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat. Shak.
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- STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - AFTERCAST
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - COWPER'S GLANDS
Two small glands discharging into the male urethra. - RACONTEUR
A relater; a storyteller. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - MOVER
1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These - FIRST
Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, - AFTER
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts - RACHIDIAN
Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian. - MOVELESS
Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope. - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - RACA
A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless." Whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. Matt. v. 22. - RACEMATION
1. A cluster or bunch, as of grapes. Sir T. Browne. 2. Cultivation or gathering of clusters of grapes. - RACHIS
The spine; the vertebral column. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - RACY
1. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich. The racy wine, Late from the mellowing cask restored to light. Pope. 2. Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong - MOVABLE
1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable - RACKETY
Making a tumultuous noise. - COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - CRACOVIENNE
A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - TRACHEA
The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung. - METATHORACIC
Of or pertaining to the metathorax. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - CATHERINE WHEEL
See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her - CORACLE
A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - CICHORACEOUS
Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory is the type. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - UNREGENERACY
The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill. - WRACK
A thin, flying cloud; a rack. - PARACROSTIC
A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE