Word Meanings - SQUAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly. Southey.

Related words: (words related to SQUAIL)

• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• COCKSPUR
  A variety of Cratægus, or hawthorn , having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• THROW-OFF
  A start in a hunt or a race.
• COCKSHEAD
  A leguminous herb , having small spiny-crested pods.
• THROWER
  One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
• COCKSHUT
  A kind of net to catch woodcock. Nares. Cockshut time or light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. Shak. B. Jonson.
• COCKSWAIN
  The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.
• COCKSHY
  1. A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks. 2. An object at which stones are flung. "Making a cockshy
• THROWN
  a. & p. p. from Throw, v. Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread
• COCKSURE
  1. Perfectly safe. We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible. Shak. 2. Quite certain. I throught myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope.
• THROWSTER
  One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.
• COCKSCOMB
  A plant , of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli. (more info) 1.
• THROWE
  A turning lathe.
• THROW-CROOK
  An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
• THROWING STICK
  An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds
• IRREGULARLY
  In an irregular manner.
• ABOUT-SLEDGE
  The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• OUTTHROW
  1. To throw out. Spenser. 2. To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.
• STIRABOUT
  A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.
• MARABOUT
  A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.
• TWO-THROW
  Capable of being thrown or cranked in two directions, usually opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch. Having two crank set near together and opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank shaft.