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. - 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. - CHLORIDIZE
See CHLORIDATE - 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.