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Word Meanings - PUTTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game. Putting stone, a heavy stone used in the game of putting.

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  • STONEBRASH
    A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
  • SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
    Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
  • STONEROOT
    A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
  • PUTTYROOT
    An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called
  • RAISE
    To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
  • RAISED
    1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
  • PUTTER-ON
    An instigator. Shak.
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • THROW
    Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
  • RAIS
    See REIS
  • THROWING
    a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
  • SHOULDERED
    Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
  • STONE-STILL
    As still as a stone. Shak.
  • EXTENDANT
    Displaced. Ogilvie.
  • PUTT
    A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole.
  • STONE-BLIND
    As blind as a stone; completely blind.
  • SHOULDER
    The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
  • PUTTING GREEN
    The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.
  • RAISING
    1. The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. 2. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. 3. The operation of embossing sheet metal,
  • THROW-OFF
    A start in a hunt or a race.
  • PITCHSTONE
    An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
  • CAPSTONE
    A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • CLINKSTONE
    An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
  • GRINDSTONE
    A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
  • LIVRAISON
    A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
  • RUBSTONE
    A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
  • MOORSTONE
    A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
  • GRINDLE STONE
    A grindstone.
  • HEBRAIST
    One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • MISRAISE
    To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
  • HUMP-SHOULDERED
    Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • EYESTONE
    Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid,
  • TURNSTONE
    Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
  • GALLSTONE
    A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.

 

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