Word Meanings - MOTORING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Act or recreation of riding in or driving a motor car or automobile.

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• RIDGELING
  A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
• RID
  imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i. He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted. Thackeray.
• RIDDEN
  p. p. of Ride.
• MOTOR; MOTORY; MOTORIAL
  Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; - - applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles, thereby causing motion.
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• AUTOMOBILE
  An automobile vehicle or mechanism; esp., a self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol,
• RIDDER
  One who, or that which, rids.
• RIDERLESS
  Having no rider; as, a riderless horse. H. Kingsley.
• RIDGELET
  A little ridge.
• RIDDLER
  One who riddles .
• RIDGEBONE
  The backbone. Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland.
• RECREATION
  The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.
• RIDE
  LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. ritan, Icel. riedha, Sw. rida, Dan. ride; cf. L. raeda a carriage, which is from a Celtic word. Cf. 1. To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. Chaucer. Let your
• RIDICULIZE
  To make ridiculous; to ridicule. Chapman.
• RIDEN
  imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride. Chaucer.
• DRIVER
  A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• RIDDANCE
  1. The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out. Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Lev. xxiii. 22. 2. The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape. "Riddance from all adversity." Hooker.
• RIDGEBAND
  The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger. Halliwell.
• CHLORIDIZE
  See CHLORIDATE
• PIPERIDINE
  An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.
• RHEOMOTOR
  Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated.
• VIRIDITY
  1. Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage. 2. Freshness; soundness. Evelyn.
• AUROCHLORIDE
  The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.
• ANTHERIDIUM
  The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a.
• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• OPHIURIDA
  See OPHIURIOIDEA
• PHONOMOTOR
  An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.
• PERIDROME
  The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple.
• CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
  A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
• LUCERNARIDA
  A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; - - called also Calycozoa. A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora.
• PTERIDOPHYTA
  A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia. -- Pter"i*do*phyte`, n. Note: This is a modern term, devised to replace the older ones acrogens and vascular
• VIRIDINE
  A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C12H19N7, obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine.
• ACRIDLY
  In an acid manner.
• NEURIDIN
  a nontoxic base, C5H14N2, found in the putrescent matters of flesh, fish, decaying cheese, etc.