Word Meanings - CREAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An usher to a riding master. (more info) begotten; cf. It. creato pupil, servant, Sp. criado a servant,
Related words: (words related to CREAT)
- RIDGELING
A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig, - RID
imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i. He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted. Thackeray. - RIDDEN
p. p. of Ride. - USHERDOM
The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively. - RIDICULER
One who ridicules. - MASTERSHIP
1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what - MASTEROUS
Masterly. Milton. - RIDDER
One who, or that which, rids. - RIDERLESS
Having no rider; as, a riderless horse. H. Kingsley. - BEGOTTEN
p. p. of Beget. - RIDGELET
A little ridge. - RIDDLER
One who riddles . - RIDGEBONE
The backbone. Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland. - RIDE
LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. ritan, Icel. riedha, Sw. rida, Dan. ride; cf. L. raeda a carriage, which is from a Celtic word. Cf. 1. To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. Chaucer. Let your - RIDICULIZE
To make ridiculous; to ridicule. Chapman. - RIDEN
imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride. Chaucer. - MASTERFULLY
In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay. - RIDDANCE
1. The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out. Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Lev. xxiii. 22. 2. The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape. "Riddance from all adversity." Hooker. - RIDGEBAND
The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger. Halliwell. - MASTERSINGER
One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm. - CREMASTERIC
Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery. - CHLORIDIZE
See CHLORIDATE - PIPERIDINE
An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. - BAGGAGE MASTER
One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. - AUROCHLORIDE
The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate. - VIRIDITY
1. Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage. 2. Freshness; soundness. Evelyn. - ANTHERIDIUM
The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a. - ARIDITY
1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris. - OPHIURIDA
See OPHIURIOIDEA - PERIDROME
The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple. - CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship. - LUCERNARIDA
A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; - - called also Calycozoa. A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora. - PTERIDOPHYTA
A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia. -- Pter"i*do*phyte`, n. Note: This is a modern term, devised to replace the older ones acrogens and vascular - TOASTMASTER
A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts. - VIRIDINE
A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C12H19N7, obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine. - ACRIDLY
In an acid manner.