Word Meanings - HARLEQUIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy. Percy Smith. As dumb harlequin is exhibited in our theaters.

Additional info about word: HARLEQUIN

A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy. Percy Smith. As dumb harlequin is exhibited in our theaters. Johnson. Harlequin bat , an Indian bat , curiously variegated with white spots. -- Harlequin beetle , a very large South American beetle having very long legs and antennæ. The elytra are curiously marked with red, black, and gray. -- Harlequin cabbage bug. See Calicoback. -- Harlequin caterpillar. , the larva of an American bombycid moth which is covered with black, white, yellow, and orange tufts of hair. -- Harlequin duck , a North American duck (Histrionicus histrionicus). The male is dark ash, curiously streaked with white. -- Harlequin moth. See Magpie Moth. -- Harlequin opal. See Opal. -- Harlequin snake , a small, poisonous snake (Elaps fulvius), ringed with red and black, found in the Southern United States. (more info) , prob. fr. OF. hierlekin, hellequin, goblin, elf, which is prob. of German or Dutch origin; cf. D. hel hell. Cf.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• AUDIENCE
  1. The act of hearing; attention to sounds. Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend. Milton. 2. Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• HARLEQUINADE
  A play or part of play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin. Macaulay.
• EXHIBIT
  A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence. (more info) 1. Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• DROLLIST
  A droll. Glanvill.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• DROLLISH
  Somewhat droll. Sterne.
• BUFFOONERY
  The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.
• SMITHSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.
• BUFFOONISH
  Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures. Blair.
• ROGUERY
  1. The life of a vargant. 2. The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden. 3. Arch tricks; mischievousness.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• COLOR
  1. To change or alter the bue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to aint; to stain. The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.