Word Meanings - PEDESTRIANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.

Related words: (words related to PEDESTRIANISM)

• PEDESTRIAN
  Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
• WALK-MILL
  A fulling mill. Halliwell.
• RACONTEUR
  A relater; a storyteller.
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• RACHIDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
• RACA
  A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless." Whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. Matt. v. 22.
• RACEMATION
  1. A cluster or bunch, as of grapes. Sir T. Browne. 2. Cultivation or gathering of clusters of grapes.
• RACHIS
  The spine; the vertebral column.
• RACY
  1. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich. The racy wine, Late from the mellowing cask restored to light. Pope. 2. Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong
• TRAVELER
  A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
• PEDESTRIANIZE
  To practice walking; to travel on foot.
• RACKETY
  Making a tumultuous noise.
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• RACOVIAN
  One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland.
• RACLENESS
  See CHAUCER
• RACE
  A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests.
• WALK
  akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. valka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; 1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps;
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• RUNNINGLY
  In a running manner.
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• CRACOVIENNE
  A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.
• METATHORACIC
  Of or pertaining to the metathorax.
• TRACHEA
  The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• CORACLE
  A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• CICHORACEOUS
  Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory is the type.
• UNREGENERACY
  The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.
• WRACK
  A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
• PARACROSTIC
  A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C.
• SUBBRACHIAL
  Of or pertaining to the subbrachians.
• DIDRACHM; DIDRACHMA
  A two-drachma piece; an ancient Greek silver coin, worth nearly forty cents.
• PROTHORACIC
  Of or pertaining to the prothorax.
• PARANTHRACENE
  An inert isomeric modification of anthracene.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.