Word Meanings - HORSE-RADISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A plant of the genus Nasturtium , allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. Gray. Horse-radish tree. See Moringa.
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- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HORSE-LEECHERY
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - ALLICIENT
That attracts; attracting. -- n. - HORSEMAN
A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1. - GRATICULE
A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions. - ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young. - HORSEKNOP
Knapweed. - HORSERAKE
A rake drawn by a horse. - ALLITERAL
Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration. - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - GRATICULATION
The division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions. (more info) graticuler, craticuler, to square, fr. graticule, craticule, - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - HORSEFLESH
1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on - GRASSLESS
Destitute of grass. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - HORSEPLAY
Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden. - ALLITERATOR
One who alliterates. - GRATITUDE
The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness. The debt immense of endless gratitude. Milton. - GALLIASS
See GALLEASS - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - MIGRATION
The act of migrating. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - DALLIANCE
1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination. - ALEPPO GRASS
One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below. - KAKARALLI
A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle. - INTEGRATOR
That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined. - 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. - CORALLIGENOUS
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble. - REALLIANCE
A renewed alliance. - IMPALLID
To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. - HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN - CRYSTALLIZATION
The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of - BALLISTER
A crossbow.