Word Meanings - COURSER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A grallatorial bird of Europe , remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family. (more info) 1. One who courses or hunts. leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads
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A grallatorial bird of Europe , remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family. (more info) 1. One who courses or hunts. leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads his greyhound. Hanmer. 2. A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger. Pope.
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- STEATOPYGOUS
Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton. - STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the - STEELING
The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v. - STERNFOREMOST
With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell. - HORSE-LEECHERY
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses. - STERNUTATORY
Sternutative. -- n. - STEVEDORE
One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold. (more info) to pack, to stow, L. stipare to press, compress, probably akin to E. - STEREOTYPER
One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry. - STEREOCHROMIC
Pertaining to the art of stereochromy; produced by stereochromy. -- Ste`re*o*chro"mic*al*ly, adv. - STEREOTYPOGRAPHY
The act or art of printing from stereotype plates. - STEER
A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox. (more info) OHG. stior, Icel. stjorr, , Sw. tjur, Dan. tyr, Goth. stiur, Russ. tur', Pol. tur, Ir. & Gael. tarbh, - STEELHEAD
A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil. - STEREOGRAPHICALLY
In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane. - STEELINESS
The quality of being steely. - STEAD
OS. stad, stedi, OHG. stat, G. statt, stätte, Icel. staedhr, Dan. sted, Sw. stad, Goth. sta, and E. stand. *163. See Stand, and cf. 1. Place, or spot, in general. Chaucer. Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon. Spenser. 2. Place or room - 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. - STEENBOK
See STEINBOCK - HORSEKNOP
Knapweed. - HORSERAKE
A rake drawn by a horse. - STERNOHYOID
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage. - ALKALI WASTE
Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste. - CREMASTERIC
Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery. - PHILISTER
A Philistine; -- a cant name given to townsmen by students in German universities. - MESOGASTER
The fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity; the mesogastrium. - CARBON STEEL
Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel. - HYSTERIA
A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of - UNSTEEL
To disarm; to soften. Richardson. - CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - FROSTED
Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight. - APOSTEMATOUS
Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme. - GASTEROMYCETES
An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs. - OSTEOGRAPHER
An osteologist. - BAGGAGE MASTER
One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. - POSTEXIST
To exist after; to live subsequently. - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.