Word Meanings - HACKNEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
haquenée a pacing horse, an ambling nag, OF. also haquenée, Sp. hacanea, OSp. facanea, D. hakkenei, also OF. haque horse, Sp. haca, OSp. faca; perh akin to E. hack to cut, and orig. meaning, a jolting 1. A horse for riding or driving; a nag;
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haquenée a pacing horse, an ambling nag, OF. also haquenée, Sp. hacanea, OSp. facanea, D. hakkenei, also OF. haque horse, Sp. haca, OSp. faca; perh akin to E. hack to cut, and orig. meaning, a jolting 1. A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony. Chaucer. 2. A horse or pony kept for hire. 3. A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach. 4. A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
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- PACA
A small South American rodent , having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig. - RIDGELING
A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig, - PACKHOUSE
Warehouse for storing goods. - HORSE-LEECHERY
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses. - AMBLE
1. A peculiar gait of a horse, in which both legs on the same side are moved at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other side. "A fine easy amble." B. Jonson. 2. A movement like the amble of a horse. - PACTOLIAN
Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands. - RIDDEN
p. p. of Ride. - MEANLY
In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously. While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. Milton. Would you meanly thus rely On power you know I must obey Prior. We can not bear to have others think meanly - 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. - PACKMAN
One who bears a pack; a peddler. - HORSEKNOP
Knapweed. - HORSERAKE
A rake drawn by a horse. - RIDICULER
One who ridicules. - PACHYDERMATOUS
1. Of or pertaining to the pachyderms. 2. Thick-skinned; not sensitive to ridicule. - PACKWAX
See PAXWAX - AMBLINGLY
With an ambling gait. - PACIFICATION
The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. "An embassy of pacification." Bacon. - PACKER
A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer. - PACIFICATORY
Tending to make peace; conciliatory. Barrow. - PACHYMETER
See PACHOMETER - SHAMBLE
One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum - CARAPACE
The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals. - PIPERIDINE
An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. - CHLORIDIZE
See CHLORIDATE - JOLT
To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts. - OPACITY
1. The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness. 2. Obscurity; want of clearness. Bp. Hall. - SCRAMBLING
Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott. - MISDEMEAN
To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self. - RECAPACITATE
To qualify again; to confer capacity on again. Atterbury. - DEMEANURE
Behavior. Spenser. - VIRIDITY
1. Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage. 2. Freshness; soundness. Evelyn. - AUROCHLORIDE
The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate. - RID
imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i. He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted. Thackeray. - ANTHERIDIUM
The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a. - ARIDITY
1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris. - OPHIURIDA
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