Word Meanings - SHIPPEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stable; a cowhouse.

Related words: (words related to SHIPPEN)

• STABLENESS
  The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
• STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
  A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
• STABLE STAND
  The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing
• STABLER
  A stable keeper. De Foe.
• STABLE
  1. Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government. In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable. Rogers. 2. Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose;
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• THERMOSTABLE
  Capable of being heated to or somewhat above 55º C. without loss of special properties; -- said of immune substances, etc.
• INTASTABLE
  Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. Grew.
• UNCONTESTABLE
  Incontestable.
• ACCOSTABLE
  Approachable; affable. Hawthorne.
• DETESTABLE
  Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11. Syn. -- Abominable;
• DETESTABLENESS
  The quality or state of being detestable.
• UNSTABLE
  Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow. -- Un*sta"ble*ness, n. Chaucer. Unstable equilibrium. See Stable equilibrium, under Stable.
• PRESTABLE
  Payable.
• MANIFESTABLE
  Such as can be manifested.
• CONSTABLE
  sense 1), OF. conestable, F. conn, LL. conestabulus, constabularius, comes stabuli, orig., count of the stable, master of the horse, equerry; comes ount + L. stabulum stable. See Count a 1. A high officer in the monarhical establishments of the
• CONSTABLESHIP
  The office or functions of a constable.
• GUSTABLE
  1. Capable of being tasted; tastable. This position informs us of a vulgar error, terming the gall bitter; whereas there is nothing gustable sweeter. Harvey. 2. Pleasant to the taste; toothsome; savory. A gustable thing, seen or smelt, excites
• LIVERY STABLE
  . A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 & .