Word Meanings - PERCHERON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.
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- BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - BREADEN
Made of bread. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - BREADBASKET
The stomach. S. Foote. - BREWER
One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors. - CALLER
1. Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. Jamieson. 2. Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings. - DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
The office, art, or work of a draughtsman. - BREADFRUIT
The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found - BREQUET CHAIN
A watch-guard. - CALL
1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. You must call to the nurse. Shak. The angel of God called to Hagar. Gen. xxi. 17. 2. To make a demand, requirement, or request. They called for rooms, and he showed - BRETFUL
Brimful. Chaucer. - BRENNAGE
A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds. - BREVITY
1. Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life. 2. Contraction into few words; conciseness. Brevity is the soul of wit. Shak. This argument is stated by St. John with his usual elegant brevity and simplicity. - BREASTWHEEL
A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on - BREVIATE
1. A short compend; a summary; a brief statement. I omit in this breviate to rehearse. Hakluyt. The same little breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity. Bp. Porteus. 2. A lawyer's brief. Hudibras. - BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - LIBRETTO
A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - 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. - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - UNIVOCALLY
In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall. - PARABOLICALLY
1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola. - STEREOGRAPHICALLY
In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane. - SABRE
See SABER - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.