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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.

 

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