Word Meanings - QUADRILLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
meeting of four or more persons or It. quadriglia a band of soldiers, a sort of dance; dim. fr. L. quadra a square, fr. quattuor four. See 1. A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set. 2. The appropriate
Additional info about word: QUADRILLE
meeting of four or more persons or It. quadriglia a band of soldiers, a sort of dance; dim. fr. L. quadra a square, fr. quattuor four. See 1. A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set. 2. The appropriate music for a quadrille.
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A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton. - BESCRATCH
To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches. - BELIAL
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Beastliness. Spenser. - BEWRAP
To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax. - MEETER
One who meets. - BERGOMASK
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The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes. - BELEAVE
To leave or to be left. May. - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - BETSO
A small brass Venetian coin. - BESCORN
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Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - BECHE DE MER
The trepang. - BELLADONNA
An herbaceous European plant with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due - BETOKEN
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To beslobber. - BENIM
To take away. Ire . . . benimeth the man fro God. Chaucer. - COMBER
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See HAREBELL - ORBED
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The constellation Aquarius. - GABELER
A collector of gabels or taxes. - CORYMBED
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