Word Meanings - PRAYING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

a. & n. from Pray, v. Praying insect, locust, or mantis , a mantis, especially Mantis religiosa. See Mantis. -- Praying machine, or Praying wheel, a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution.

Additional info about word: PRAYING

a. & n. from Pray, v. Praying insect, locust, or mantis , a mantis, especially Mantis religiosa. See Mantis. -- Praying machine, or Praying wheel, a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream.

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• PASTURER
  One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.
• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• PASTICCIO
  1. A medley; an olio. H. Swinburne. A work of art imitating directly the work of another artist, or of more artists than one. A falsified work of art, as a vase or statue made up of parts of original works, with missing parts supplied.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• RAPIDNESS
  Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
• PASTORSHIP
  Pastorate. Bp. Bull.
• PASTURELESS
  Destitute of pasture. Milton.
• PASTIME
  That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.
• PASTORLESS
  Having no pastor.
• PASTURAGE
  1. Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture. 2. Grass growing for feed; grazing. 3. The business of feeding or grazing cattle.
• WHEELBIRD
  The European goatsucker.
• PASTORLY
  Appropriate to a pastor. Milton.
• MANTISPID
  Any neuropterous insect of the genus Mantispa, and allied genera. The larvæ feed on plant lice. Also used adjectively. See Illust. under Neuroptera.
• PASTEURIZER
  One that Pasteurizes, specif. an apparatus for heating and agitating, fluid.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PRAYING
  a. & n. from Pray, v. Praying insect, locust, or mantis , a mantis, especially Mantis religiosa. See Mantis. -- Praying machine, or Praying wheel, a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution.
• RAPIDITY
  The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement. Syn. -- -- Rapidness; haste; speed; celerity; velocity; swiftness; fleetness; quickness; agility.
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• CATHERINE WHEEL
  See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• REPASTURE
  Food; entertainment. Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak.
• FOUR-WHEELER
  A vehicle having four wheels.
• TETRASPASTON
  A machine in which four pulleys act together. Brande & C.
• PELTON WHEEL
  A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
• WATER LOCUST
  A thorny leguminous tree which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• 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