Word Meanings - HORSE-LITTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. Milton.

Related words: (words related to HORSE-LITTER)

• POLESTAR
  1. Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North. 2. A guide or director.
• BORNE
  Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• HORSESHOE
  The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in
• CARRIAGE
  carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
• HORSESHOEING
  The act or employment of shoeing horses.
• HORSESHOER
  One who shoes horses.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• BORNEOL
  A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European
• RECARRIAGE
  Act of carrying back.
• MISCARRIAGEABLE
  Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. Bp. Hall.
• FORBORNE
  p. p. of Forbear.
• GINNY-CARRIAGE
  A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• SUBORNER
  One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.
• HYDROPNEUMATIC GUN CARRIAGE
  A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid and air, the air when compressed furnishing the power for restoring the gun to the firing position. It is used with some English and European heavy guns.
• SHARD-BORNE
  Borne on shards or scaly wing cases. "The shard-borne beetle." Shak.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• MISCARRIAGE
  1. Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden. 2. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior;