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Word Meanings - PROMENADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

lead, take for a walk, se promener to walk, from L. prominare to drive forward or along; pro forward + minare to drive animals. See 1. A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise. Burke. 2. A place for walking; a public walk. Bp. Montagu.

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  • STALKY
    Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
  • MARCHER
    One who marches.
  • STRIDE
    strive; akin to LG. striden, OFries. strida to strive, D. strijden to strive, to contend, G. streiten, OHG. stritan; of uncertain origin. 1. To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining
  • STALK-EYED
    Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. See Podophthalmia.
  • MARCH
    The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days. The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. Bryant. As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares,
  • STALKLESS
    Having no stalk.
  • MARCHING
    ,fr. March, v. Marching money , the additional pay of officer or soldier when his regiment is marching. -- In marching order , equipped for a march. -- Marching regiment. A regiment in active service. In England, a regiment liable
  • STALKER
    1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net.
  • MARCHIONESS
    The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis. Spelman.
  • MARCH-MAD
    Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month. Sir W. Scott.
  • PARADE
    An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private , according to the force assembled. 3. Pompous
  • MARCHET; MERCHET
    In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.
  • STRIDENT
    Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." Thackeray.
  • PROMENADE
    lead, take for a walk, se promener to walk, from L. prominare to drive forward or along; pro forward + minare to drive animals. See 1. A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise. Burke. 2. A place for walking; a public walk. Bp. Montagu.
  • PROMENADER
    One who promenades.
  • MARCH-WARD
    A warden of the marches; a marcher.
  • MARCHMAN
    A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.
  • STALKED
    Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem. Stalked barnacle , a goose barnacle, or anatifer; -- called also stalk barnacle. -- Stalked crinoid , any crinoid having a jointed stem.
  • STALKING-HORSE
    1. A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill. 2. Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense. Hypocrisy is the devil's stalking-horse under
  • STALK
    An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring. 4. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. To climd by the rungs and the stalks. Chaucer. A stem or peduncle, as of certain
  • NOMARCH
    The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.
  • POLEMARCH
    In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.
  • OVERSTRIDE
    To stride over or beyond.
  • OVERMARCH
    To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching. Baker.
  • DISMARCH
    To march away.
  • OUTMARCH
    To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.
  • ASTRIDE
    With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.
  • DEERSTALKER
    One who practices deerstalking.
  • OUTSTRIDE
    To surpass in striding.
  • CORNSTALK
    A stalk of Indian corn.
  • NOMARCHY
    A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.

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