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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

 

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