Word Meanings - GATEPOST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging or hinging post. 2. A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post.

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• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• SWINGDEVIL
  The European swift.
• CALL
  callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
• 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.
• CALLIOPE
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
• SWINGE
  See SPENSER
• CALLOT
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
• SWINGLE
  1. To dangle; to wave hanging. Johnson. 2. To swing for pleasure.
• CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• SWINGLETREE
  A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.
• SHUTTLEWISE
  Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.
• CALLOSE
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• CALLIDITY
  Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.
• HINGED
  Furnished with hinges.
• HINGELESS
  Without a hinge or joint.
• 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.
• ROUGHING-IN
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• LAUGHINGLY
  With laughter or merriment.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• SLOUGHING
  The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• RUCHING
  A ruche, or ruches collectively.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• SCOTCHING
  Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• SHINGLER
  1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
• ACRONYCALLY
  In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.