Word Meanings - ROCKING-HORSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.
Related words: (words related to ROCKING-HORSE)
- MOUNTABLE
Such as can be mounted. - MOUNTING
1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond. - HORSE-LEECHERY
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses. - MOUNTAINOUS
1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior. - MOUNTAINOUSNESS
The state or quality of being mountainous. - HORSEMAN
A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1. - HORSEKNOP
Knapweed. - HORSERAKE
A rake drawn by a horse. - HORSEFLESH
1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on - HORSEPLAY
Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden. - MOUNTANT
Raised; high. - HORSE-JOCKEY
1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses. - MOUNTEBANKISM
The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery. - MOUNTEBANK
1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that - MOUNT
A bank; a fund. Mount of piety. See Mont de piété. (more info) montis; cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent, menace: cf. F. mont. 1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding - HORSEMINT
A coarse American plant of the Mint family . In England, the wild mint . - HORSEWORM
The larva of a botfly. - HORSESHOE
The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in - HORSEWOOD
A West Indian tree with showy, crimson blossoms. - HORSEWHIP
A whip for horses. - DEMOUNT
To dismount. - INSURMOUNTABILITY
The state or quality of being insurmountable. - REAR-HORSE
A mantis. - SAWHORSE
A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck. - SEA HORSE
1. A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus. The walrus. Any fish of the genus Hippocampus. Note: In a passage - REMOUNT
To mount again. - CONFIGURE
To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley. - WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite. - POLY-MOUNTAIN
Same as Poly, n. The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe. The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe.