Word Meanings - FOREGANGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin Totten.
Related words: (words related to FOREGANGER)
- SHORT-WITED
Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment. - GRAFTAGE
The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation. - SHORT CIRCUIT
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. - SHORT-HANDED
Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers. - SHORTHEAD
A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - SHORTCAKE
An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked. - SHORTLY
1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in - SHORT-JOINTED
Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short. - SHORT-DATED
Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - SHORT-WAISTED
Having a short waist. - SHORT
In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. To sell short , to sell, for future delivery, - SHORTENING
That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc. (more info) 1. The act of making or becoming short or shorter. - GRAFTER
An instrument by which grafting is facilitated. 3. The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree. Shak. (more info) 1. One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting. - HARPOONEER
An harpooner. Grabb. - SHORTSTOP
The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases. - SHORT-SPOKEN
Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt. - SHORT-BREATHED
1. Having short-breath, or quick respiration. 2. Having short life. - SHORTSIGHTED
1. Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia. 2. Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect. 3. Having little regard for the future; heedless. -- Short"sight`ed*ly, adv. - CLEFTGRAFT
To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer. - INGRAFTER
A person who ingrafts. - RED-SHORT
Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron. -- Red"-short`ness, n.