Word Meanings - DEHORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth or the horns of by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal .
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- DEHORN
To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth or the horns of by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal . - AFTERCAST
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower. - DEPRIVEMENT
Deprivation. - PREVENTATIVE
That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive. - AFTER
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts - BURN
To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel. - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - STARTLINGLY
In a startling manner. - BURNISHER
1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses. - BURNISH
To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing - HORNSTONE
A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert. - PREVENTABLE
Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases. - PREVENTINGLY
So as to prevent or hinder. - BURNIEBEE
The ladybird. - STARTFULNESS
Aptness to start. - AFTERSHAFT
The hypoptilum. - AFTERPIECE
The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. - PREVENT
1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow - DISHORN
To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle. "Dishorn the spirit." Shak. - JOURNALIST
1. One who keeps a journal or diary. Mickle. 2. The conductor of a public journal, or one whose business it to write for a public journal; an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical. Addison. - OVERBURN
To burn too much; to be overzealous. - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable. - BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
See BURNER - SUNBURNING
Sunburn; tan. Boyle. - THORNSET
Set with thorns. Dyer. - SUNBURN
To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden. - GAS-BURNER
The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices. - AUBURN
1. Flaxen-colored. Florio. 2. Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden. - IMPREVENTABILITY
The state or quality of being impreventable. - MISGROWTH
Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.