Word Meanings - COUPE-GORGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces. Farrow.

Related words: (words related to COUPE-GORGE)

• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• ADVANTAGE
  1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• SURRENDEROR
  One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
• OCCUPY
  1. To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess. Woe occupieth the fine of our gladness. Chaucer. The better apartments were already occupied. W. Irving 2. To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space
• GIVER
  One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.
• ADVANTAGEOUSNESS
  Profitableness.
• ADVANTAGEABLE
  Advantageous.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• POSITION
  A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error. Angle of position , the angle which any line makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. -- Double position ,
• POSITIONAL
  Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. Sir T. Browne.
• GIVE
  To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given. 9. To allow or admit by way of supposition. I give not heaven for lost. Mlton. 10. To attribute; to assign;
• SURRENDERER
  One who surrenders.
• ADVANTAGEOUS
  Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation
• ENEMY
  One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood. To all good he enemy was still. Spenser. I say unto you, Love
• ADVANTAGEOUSLY
  Profitably; with advantage.
• EITHER
  MHG. iegeweder); a + ge + hwæ whether. See Each, and Whether, and cf. 1. One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one. Lepidus flatters both, Of both is flattered; but he neither
• FARROW
  A little of pigs. Shak. (more info) farah, pig, dim. farheli little pig, G. fercel, D. varken pig, Lith.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• ALMSGIVING
  The giving of alms.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• REGIVE
  To give again; to give back.
• EXPOSITION
  1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• OGIVE
  The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.
• SEPOSITION
  The act of setting aside, or of giving up. Jer. Taylor.
• CIRCUMPOSITION
  The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.
• ANTEPOSITION
  The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.