Word Meanings - HORSE-LEECHERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
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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 - BUSINESS
The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's - 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 CurculionideƦ, 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. - 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 CuraƧcao. - 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. - CURIOSO
A virtuoso. - 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. - 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.