Word Meanings - SLEIGHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of riding in a sleigh. 2. The state of the snow or ice which admits of running sleighs.

Related words: (words related to SLEIGHING)

• RIDGELING
  A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• RIDDEN
  p. p. of Ride.
• SLEIGHT
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• SLEIGHTY
  Cunning; sly. Huloet.
• RIDDER
  One who, or that which, rids.
• RIDERLESS
  Having no rider; as, a riderless horse. H. Kingsley.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• RIDGELET
  A little ridge.
• RIDDLER
  One who riddles .
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• RIDGEBONE
  The backbone. Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland.
• STATECRAFT
  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
• RUNNINGLY
  In a running manner.
• RIDICULIZE
  To make ridiculous; to ridicule. Chapman.
• STATESWOMAN
  A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
• RIDEN
  imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride. Chaucer.
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• CHLORIDIZE
  See CHLORIDATE
• PIPERIDINE
  An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• VIRIDITY
  1. Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage. 2. Freshness; soundness. Evelyn.
• AUROCHLORIDE
  The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• RID
  imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i. He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted. Thackeray.
• ANTHERIDIUM
  The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a.
• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• OPHIURIDA
  See OPHIURIOIDEA
• PERIDROME
  The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple.
• CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
  A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.