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. - STALKER
1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net. - 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 - 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.