Word Meanings - PARAGRELE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms. Knight.

Related words: (words related to PARAGRELE)

• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• DRAWER
  An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, draws; as: One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• DRAWCANSIR
  A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.
• DRAW-CUT
  A single cut with a knife.
• DRAWEE
  The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
• LIGHTNESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility;
• DRAWROD
  A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
• DRAWBAR
  An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. A bar of iron with an eye at each end,
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• DRAW
  draga, Dan. drage to draw, carry, and prob. to OS. dragan to bear, carry, D. dragen, G. tragen, Goth. dragan; cf. Skr. dhraj to move along, glide; and perh. akin to Skr. dhar to hold, bear. Drag, Dray a 1. To cause to move continuously by force
• DRAWLINK
  See
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• DRAWGLOVES
  An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• ATMOSPHERE
  The whole mass of aëriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. Any gaseous envelope or medium. An atmosphere of cold oxygen. Miller. 2. A supposed
• ERECTILITY
  The quality or state of being erectile.
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• UNDRAW
  To draw aside or open; to draw back. Angels undrew the curtain of the throne. Young.
• FINEDRAW
  To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter. Marryat.
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.