Word Meanings - GEORGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A figure of St. George on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter. 2. A kind of brown loaf. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to GEORGE)

• APPENDANT
  A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance. (more info) 1. Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• FIGURE
  1. To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court. Sociable, hospitable, eloquent, admired, figuring away brilliantly. M. Arnold. 2. To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure
• COLLARED
  Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins. 3. Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t. (more
• APPENDICAL
  Of or like an appendix.
• APPENDIX
  1. Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. Normandy became an appendix to England. Sir M. Hale. 2. Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished
• GARTER STITCH
  The simplest stitch in knitting.
• COLLARET; COLLARETTE
  A small collar; specif., a woman's collar of lace, fur, or other fancy material.
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• GEORGE NOBLE
  A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII. See Noble, n.
• COLLAR
  1. To seize by the collar. 2. To put a collar on. To collar beef , to roll it up, and bind it close with a string preparatory to cooking it.
• APPEND
  belong, OF. apendre, F. appendre, fr. L. append, v. i., to hang to, append, v. t., to hang to; ad + pend, v. i., to hang, pend, v. t., to 1. To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record;
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• BROWNNESS
  The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
• BROWNWORT
  A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
• APPENDICULATE
  Having small appendages; forming an appendage. Appendiculate leaf, a small appended leaf. Withering.
• BROWNY
  Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.
• APPENDENCE; APPENDENCY
  State of being appendant; appendance.
• APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICECTOMY
  Excision of the vermiform appendix.
• BROWNIAN
  Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
• DISAPPENDENT
  Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected.
• AHORSEBACK
  On horseback. Two suspicious fellows ahorseback. Smollet.
• DISORDER
  1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And
• IMBROWN
  To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.