Word Meanings - RUTTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A horseman or trooper. Such a regiment of rutters Never defied men braver. Beau. & Fl.

Related words: (words related to RUTTER)

• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• 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.
• DEFINITIVE
  1. Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express. A strict and definitive truth. Sir T. Browne. Some definitive . . . scheme of reconciliation. Prescott. 2. Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word. 3. Determined; resolved.
• NEVERTHELESS
  Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11. Syn. -- However; at least; yet; still.
• DEFINABLE
  Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words. -- De*fin"a*bly, adv.
• DEFILADE
  To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
• REGIMENTALS
  The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.
• DEFINITIVELY
  In a definitive manner.
• DEFICIENT
  Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was
• DEFINITIONAL
  Relating to definition; of the nature of a definition; employed in defining.
• DEFINITE
  1. Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval. Elements combine in definite proportions. Whewell. 2. Having certain limits
• DEFIBRINATE
  To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.
• REGIMENTALLY
  In or by a regiment or regiments; as, troops classified regimentally.
• TROOPER
  A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.
• DEFILE
  To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.
• DEFIGURATION
  Disfiguration; mutilation. Bp. Hall.
• REGIMENT
  A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten. Note: In the British army all the artillery are included in one regiment, which is divided into brigades. Regiment of
• DEFINER
  One who defines or explains.
• NEVERMORE
  Never again; at no time hereafter. Testament of Love. Tyndale. Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore. Longfellow.
• DEFIGURE
  To delineate. These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.
• WHENEVER
  At whatever time. "Whenever that shall be." Milton.
• PREDEFINE
  To define beforehand.
• INDEFICIENCY
  The state or quality of not being deficient. Strype.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.