Word Meanings - SPIKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes. A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, . . . was caught by those spikes. Wiseman.
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- STOPPING
A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. (more info) 1. Material for filling a cavity. - FURNISHMENT
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel. - STOPPAGE
The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce. - LEAPFUL
A basketful. - CAUGHT
f Catch. - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - THOSE
The plural of that. See That. - LEAPER
One who, or that which, leaps. - LEAP YEAR
. Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile. Note: Every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year, - STOPPER
A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something. Totten. (more info) 1. One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent - YOUTHSOME
Youthful. Pepys. - YOUTHY
Young. Spectator. - STOPPED
Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants . H. Sweet. - YOUTHFUL
Also used figuratively. "The youthful season of the year." Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports. "Warm, youthful blood." Shak. "Youthful thoughts." Milton. 3. Fresh; - SPIKEFISH
See SAILFISH - PALESTRA
palaestra, Gr. A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general. A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling. - FURNISH
Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to - SPIKENARD
An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for - SPIKED
Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes. A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, . . . was caught by those spikes. Wiseman. - LEAPING
from Leap, to jump. Leaping house, a brothel. Shak. -- Leaping pole, a pole used in some games of leaping. -- Leaping spider , a jumping spider; one of the Saltigradæ. - UPCAUGHT
Seized or caught up. " She bears upcaught a mariner away." Cowper. - SPATHOSE
See SPATHIC - UNFASTEN
To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie. - UNSPIKE
To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon. - COPPER-FASTENED
Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship. - DISFURNISH
To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger. - OUTLEAP
To surpass in leaping. - HANDSPIKE
A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.