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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.

 

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