Word Meanings - COCKSURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Perfectly safe. We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible. Shak. 2. Quite certain. I throught myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope.
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- CASTLEWARD
See CASTLEGUARD - PROMISSORILY
In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne. - HORSE-LEECHERY
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses. - CASTLE
1. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress. The house of every one is to him castle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose. Coke. Our castle's strength Will laugh - HORSEMAN
A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1. - HORSEKNOP
Knapweed. - HORSERAKE
A rake drawn by a horse. - READILY
1. In a ready manner; quickly; promptly. Chaucer. 2. Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully. How readily we wish time spent revoked! Cowper. - HORSEFLESH
1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on - HORSEPLAY
Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - STEALINGLY
By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney. - HORSE-JOCKEY
1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses. - STEALTH
1. The act of stealing; theft. The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. 2. The thing stolen; stolen property. "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The bringing to - HORSEMINT
A coarse American plant of the Mint family . In England, the wild mint . - HORSEWORM
The larva of a botfly. - HORSESHOE
The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in - HORSEWOOD
A West Indian tree with showy, crimson blossoms. - HORSEWHIP
A whip for horses. - CASTLET
A small castle. Leland. - COMPROMISE
promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both - UNPROMISE
To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman. - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - REAR-HORSE
A mantis. - SESQUITERTIAL
Sesquitertian. - SESQUITERTIAN; SESQUITERTIANAL
Having the ratio of one and one third to one . - SAWHORSE
A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck. - FOREPROMISED
Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall. - SUBPERIOSTEAL
Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.