Word Meanings - DRYFOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced. Shak.
Related words: (words related to DRYFOOT)
- TRACHEA
The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung. - TRACHELORRHAPHY
The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus. - TRACHYSPERMOUS
Rough-seeded. Gray. - TRACHENCHYMA
A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheæ. - SCENTFUL
1. Full of scent or odor; odorous. "A scentful nosegay." W. Browne. 2. Of quick or keen smell. The scentful osprey by the rock had fished. W. Browne. - TRACHELIPOD
One of the Trachelipoda. - TRACHELIDAN
Any one of a tribe of beetles which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples. - TRACTORATION
See PERKINISM - TRACKLAYER
Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n. - TRACTITE
A Tractarian. - TRACKWALKER
A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks. - TRACTARIAN
Of or pertaining to the Tractarians, or their principles. - TRACTARIANISM
The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times." - TRACHEITIS
Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe. - TRACHEARY
Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheæ. -- n. - TRACHYTIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte. - SCENT
1. That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk. With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial. prior. 2. Specifically, the odor left by an animal - TRACKMAN
One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker. - TRACTION
1. The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle. 2. Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug. 3. Attraction; - TRACTORY
A tractrix. - FLORESCENT
Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See - INTUMESCENT
Swelling up; expanding. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - REVALESCENT
Growing well; recovering strength. (more info) revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be - MALACOSTRACOLOGY
That branch of zoölogical science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology. - ADOLESCENT
Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. (more info) up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See - TETRACOLON
A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. Crabb. - CONCUPISCENTIOUS
Concupiscent. - LAPIDESCENT
Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies. - LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair. - CONVALESCENTLY
In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor. - DELITESCENT
Lying hid; concealed. - INEFFERVESCENT
Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent. - DEPASCENT
Feeding. - SUBCONTRACTOR
One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.