Word Meanings - LONGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A thrust. See Lunge. Smollett. 2. The training ground for a horse. Farrow.

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• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• 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.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• HORSEKNOP
  Knapweed.
• HORSERAKE
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• THRUSTING
  The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. (more info) 1. The act of pushing with force. The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. pl.
• 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
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• HORSE-JOCKEY
  1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses.
• HORSEMINT
  A coarse American plant of the Mint family . In England, the wild mint .
• HORSEWORM
  The larva of a botfly.
• 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
• HORSEWOOD
  A West Indian tree with showy, crimson blossoms.
• HORSEWHIP
  A whip for horses.
• HORSE-LITTER
  A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. Milton.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• BLUNGE
  To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• REAR-HORSE
  A mantis.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• SAWHORSE
  A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.
• UPTRAIN
  To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
• CORRIDOR TRAIN
  A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.