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Word Meanings - HOPSCOTCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.

Related words: (words related to HOPSCOTCH)

  • CHILDSHIP
    The state or relation of being a child.
  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • TRACHEA
    The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • STONEBRASH
    A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
  • TRACHELORRHAPHY
    The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
  • CHILDISHNESS
    The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
  • SCOTCHING
    Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.
  • GROUNDWORK
    That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
  • TRACHYSPERMOUS
    Rough-seeded. Gray.
  • CHILDED
    Furnished with a child.
  • TRACHENCHYMA
    A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheƦ.
  • GROUNDEN
    p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
  • CHILDBIRTH
    The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • TRACHELIPOD
    One of the Trachelipoda.
  • HOPPERINGS
    Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
  • TRACHELIDAN
    Any one of a tribe of beetles which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.
  • TRACTORATION
    See PERKINISM
  • PITCHSTONE
    An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
  • CAPSTONE
    A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • MISGROUND
    To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
  • CLINKSTONE
    An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • GRINDSTONE
    A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
  • SCALLION
    A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
  • GODCHILD
    One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
  • RUBSTONE
    A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
  • MOORSTONE
    A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
  • UNIVOCALLY
    In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.

 

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