Word Meanings - HAYMAKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.

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• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• 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
• CURTEIN
  See CURTANA
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• 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.
• GRASSLESS
  Destitute of grass.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• CURLY
  Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
• CURACAO; CURACOA
  A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaçcao.
• CURACY
  The office or employment of a curate.
• CURRANT
  A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. Black currant,a shrub or bush and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit. -- Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant,
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• MERCURIALISM
  The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of mercury, or by exposure to its fumes, as in mining or smelting.
• ALEPPO GRASS
  One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.
• 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.
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• 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
• 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.
• PHASING CURRENT
  The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
• SECURIFORM
  Having the form of an ax hatchet.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.