Word Meanings - ROUNCEVAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Large; strong; -- from the gigantic bones shown at Roncesvalles, and alleged to be those of old heroes.

Related words: (words related to ROUNCEVAL)

• ALLEGIANT
  Loyal. Shak.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• STRONGYLOID
  Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
• ALLEGORIC; ALLEGORICAL
  Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. "An allegoric tale." Falconer. "An allegorical application." Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing,
• ALLEGORIZATION
  The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.
• ALLEGORIZER
  One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.
• STRONGYLID
  Strongyloid.
• ALLEGORIST
  One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.
• GIGANTIC
  1. Of extraordinary size; like a giant. 2. Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. Milton. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Strom wind of the equinox.
• ALLEGE
  prop. to free from legal difficulties, fr. an assumed LL. exlitigare; L. ex + litigare to quarrel, sue . The word was 1. To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact. 2. To cite or quote; as, to allege
• ALLEGEABLE
  Capable of being alleged or affirmed. The most authentic examples allegeable in the case. South.
• BONESET
  A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
• GIGANTICAL
  Bulky, big. Burton. -- Gi*gan"tic*al*ly, adv.
• ALLEGORY
  A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured. Syn. -- Metaphor; fable. -- Allegory, Parable. "An allegory differs both from fable and parable, in that the properties of persons are
• STRONG
  strong; akin to D. & G. streng strict, rigorous, OHG. strengi strong, brave, harsh, Icel. strangr strong, severe, Dan. streng, Sw. sträng 1. Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• ALLEGATION
  A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved. (more info) send a message, cite; later, to free by giving reasons; ad + legare 1. The
• STRONGLY
  In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.
• ALLEGORIZE
  1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. 2. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative
• ALLEGEANCE
  Allegation.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• WHETTLEBONES
  The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• SAWBONES
  A nickname for a surgeon.
• GALLEGAN; GALLEGO
  A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.
• HEADSTRONGNESS
  Obstinacy. Gayton.