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Word Meanings - STALL-FEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall- feed an ox.

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  • STALLING
    Stabling. Tennyson.
  • STALL-FEED
    To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall- feed an ox.
  • STALLATION
    Installation.
  • STALLAGE
    The right of erecting a stalls in fairs; rent paid for a stall. 2. Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw.
  • FODDERER
    One who fodders cattle.
  • STALLON
    A slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting. Holished.
  • FODDER
    A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19
  • STALLED
    Put or kept in a stall; hence, fatted. "A stalled ox." Prov. xv. 17.
  • STALL
    The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post. Stall reader, one who reads books at a stall where they are exposed for sale. Cries the stall reader, "Bless us! what a word on A titlepage is this!" Milton. (more info)
  • FATTEN
    Etym: 1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat. 2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.
  • STALLMAN
    One who keeps a stall for the sale of merchandise, especially books. Sterne.
  • STALLION
    A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.
  • FATTENER
    One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.
  • STALLER
    A standard bearer. obtaining Fuller.
  • HEADSTALL
    That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
  • CRYSTALLOID
    Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.
  • HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
    See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  • PIEDSTALL
    See PEDESTAL
  • CRYSTALLIZATION
    The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
  • SEMICRYSTALLINE
    Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
  • CRYSTALLIZE
    To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.
  • CRYSTALLOGRAPHER
    One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.
  • HYPOCRYSTALLINE
    Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
  • MICROCRYSTALLINE
    Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
  • GREEN-STALL
    A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
  • CRYSTALLOMETRY
    The art of measuring crystals.
  • BUCKSTALL
    A toil or net to take deer.
  • PHANEROCRYSTALLINE
    Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.
  • CRYSTALLIZABLE
    Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.
  • CRYSTALLURGY
    Crystallizaton.
  • FORSTALL
    To forestall. Spenser.
  • CRYSTALLITE
    A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form

 

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