Word Meanings - SOWAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In India, a mounted soldier.

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• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• MOUNTING
  1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
• SOLDIERLY
  Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney.
• MOUNTAINOUS
  1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
• MOUNTAINOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being mountainous.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• MOUNTANT
  Raised; high.
• MOUNTEBANKISM
  The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
• MOUNT
  A bank; a fund. Mount of piety. See Mont de piété. (more info) montis; cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent, menace: cf. F. mont. 1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding
• MOUNTEBANK
  1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
• SOLDIERING
  1. The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier. 2. The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2.
• MOUNTENAUNCE
  Mountance.
• INDIAMAN
  A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
• MOUNTER
  1. One who mounts. 2. An animal mounted; a monture.
• INDIA STEEL
  See WOOTZ
• MOUNTEBANKERY
  The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
• MOUNTAIN STATE
  Montana; -- a nickname.
• INDIAN
  river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars;
• DEMOUNT
  To dismount.
• INSURMOUNTABILITY
  The state or quality of being insurmountable.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• REMOUNT
  To mount again.
• LINDIA
  A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
• POLY-MOUNTAIN
  Same as Poly, n. The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe. The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe.
• DISMOUNT
  1. To come down; to descend. But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser. 2. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.