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Word Meanings - FOREHAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. All that part of a horse which is before the rider. Johnson. 2. The chief or most important part. Shak. 3. Superiority; advantage; start; precedence. And, but for ceremony, such a wretch . . . Had the forehand and vantage of a king. Shak.

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  • CHIEFLESS
    Without a chief or leader.
  • HORSE-LEECHERY
    The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
  • FOREHAND
    1. All that part of a horse which is before the rider. Johnson. 2. The chief or most important part. Shak. 3. Superiority; advantage; start; precedence. And, but for ceremony, such a wretch . . . Had the forehand and vantage of a king. Shak.
  • STARTLE
    1. To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise. The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us. Locke. 2. To deter; to cause to deviate.
  • HORSEMAN
    A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1.
  • VANTAGE GAME
    The first game after the set is deuce. See Set, n., 9.
  • HORSEKNOP
    Knapweed.
  • HORSERAKE
    A rake drawn by a horse.
  • STARTLINGLY
    In a startling manner.
  • HORSEFLESH
    1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
  • HORSEPLAY
    Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
  • CHIEFEST
    First or foremost; chief; principal. "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.
  • RIDERLESS
    Having no rider; as, a riderless horse. H. Kingsley.
  • FOREHANDED
    1. Early; timely; seasonable. "Forehanded care." Jer. Taylor. 2. Beforehand with one's needs, or having resources in advance of one's necessities; in easy circumstances; as, a forehanded farmer. 3. Formed in the forehand or fore parts.
  • IMPORTANTLY
    In an important manner.
  • BEFORETIME
    Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
  • ADVANTAGE
    1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages
  • 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.
  • STARTFULNESS
    Aptness to start.
  • HORSE-JOCKEY
    1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses.
  • AFOREHAND
    Beforehand; in anticipation. She is come aforehand to anoint my body. Mark xiv. 8.
  • KERCHIEF
    couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
  • REAR-HORSE
    A mantis.
  • THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
    Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
  • MISCHIEF
    + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
  • SAWHORSE
    A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.
  • ENKERCHIEFED
    Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered. Milton. That soft, enkerchiefed hair. M. Arnold.
  • SEA HORSE
    1. A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus. The walrus. Any fish of the genus Hippocampus. Note: In a passage

 

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