Word Meanings - HAYMAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who cuts and cures hay. 2. A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.

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• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• WEATHERING
  The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
• WEATHERWISER
  Something that foreshows the weather. Derham.
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• CURSORIAL
  Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. Of or pertaining to the Cursores.
• CURMURRING
  Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. Burns.
• CURIA
  The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. Burrill. (more info) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus. The place of assembly of one of these divisions. The place where
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• CURTEIN
  See CURTANA
• CURARE; CURARI
  A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos . It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as
• CURCULIONIDOUS
  Pertaining to the Curculionideæ, or weevil tribe.
• CURIALIST
  One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Shipley.
• CURTANA
  The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.
• CURDINESS
  The state of being curdy.
• CURIALISM
  The wiew or doctrins of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Gladstone.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• WEATHER-BIT
  A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• WEATHER MAP
  A map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given hour and over an extended region. Such maps usually show the height of the barometer, the temperature of the air, the relative humidity, the state of the weather,
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• MERCURIALISM
  The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of mercury, or by exposure to its fumes, as in mining or smelting.
• RECUR
  1. To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. I. Watts. 2. To occur at a stated interval, or according to some
• ZANTE CURRANT
  A kind of seedless grape or raisin; -- so called from Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• JAPAN CURRENT
  A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• PROCURATORSHIP
  The office or term of a procurator. Bp. Pearson.
• ESCURIAL
  A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid. Note: The ground plan is said to be in the form of a gridiron, the structure being designed in honor of St. Lawrence,
• INCUR
  1. To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable or subject to; to bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; as, to incur
• DECURSIVELY
  In a decursive manner. Decursively pinnate , having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole; -- said of a leaf.