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.
• 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 .
• TRACHEA
  The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• TRACHELORRHAPHY
  The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
• 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.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• TRACHENCHYMA
  A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheæ.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• TRACHELIPOD
  One of the Trachelipoda.
• TRACHELIDAN
  Any one of a tribe of beetles which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.
• HOPPERINGS
  Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
• 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.