Word Meanings - STEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose. "A knight upon a steed." Chaucer. Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed. Shak. (more info) stod a stud of breeding steeds; akin to G. stute a mare,

Additional info about word: STEED

A horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose. "A knight upon a steed." Chaucer. Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed. Shak. (more info) stod a stud of breeding steeds; akin to G. stute a mare, Icel.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STEED)

• Horse
• Steed
• charger
• courser

Related words: (words related to STEED)

• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• STERNUTATORY
  Sternutative. -- n.
• STEVEDORE
  One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold. (more info) to pack, to stow, L. stipare to press, compress, probably akin to E.
• STEREOTYPER
  One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.
• STEREOCHROMIC
  Pertaining to the art of stereochromy; produced by stereochromy. -- Ste`re*o*chro"mic*al*ly, adv.
• STEREOTYPOGRAPHY
  The act or art of printing from stereotype plates.
• STEER
  A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox. (more info) OHG. stior, Icel. stjorr, , Sw. tjur, Dan. tyr, Goth. stiur, Russ. tur', Pol. tur, Ir. & Gael. tarbh,
• STEELHEAD
  A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• STEELINESS
  The quality of being steely.
• STEAD
  OS. stad, stedi, OHG. stat, G. statt, stätte, Icel. staedhr, Dan. sted, Sw. stad, Goth. sta, and E. stand. *163. See Stand, and cf. 1. Place, or spot, in general. Chaucer. Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon. Spenser. 2. Place or room
• HORSEMAN
  A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1.
• STEENBOK
  See STEINBOCK
• HORSEKNOP
  Knapweed.
• HORSERAKE
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• STERNOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• PHILISTER
  A Philistine; -- a cant name given to townsmen by students in German universities.
• CARBON STEEL
  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• HYSTERIA
  A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of
• MESOGASTER
  The fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity; the mesogastrium.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• UNSTEEL
  To disarm; to soften. Richardson.
• FROSTED
  Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.
• GASTEROMYCETES
  An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.
• APOSTEMATOUS
  Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme.
• OSTEOGRAPHER
  An osteologist.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• POSTEXIST
  To exist after; to live subsequently.
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.