Word Meanings - GENET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet. Shak.

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• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• 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.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• HORSEKNOP
  Knapweed.
• HORSERAKE
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• 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.
• PROPORTION
  1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his
• HORSE-JOCKEY
  1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses.
• SIZING
  1. Act of covering or treating with size. 2. A weak glue used in various trades; size.
• HORSEMINT
  A coarse American plant of the Mint family . In England, the wild mint .
• HORSEWORM
  The larva of a botfly.
• HORSESHOE
  The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in
• HORSEWOOD
  A West Indian tree with showy, crimson blossoms.
• SIZY
  Sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood. Arbuthnot.
• PROPORTIONABLE
  Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke.
• HORSEWHIP
  A whip for horses.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• HORSE-LITTER
  A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. Milton.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• SIZE
  Six.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• REAR-HORSE
  A mantis.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
• 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.
• HYPOSTASIZE
  To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize. The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. Coleridge.
• DISPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
• EMPHASIZE
  To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.