Word Meanings - STEEPLECHASING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of riding steeple chases.
Related words: (words related to STEEPLECHASING)
- RIDGELING
A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig, - RIDDEN
p. p. of Ride. - RIDICULER
One who ridicules. - STEEPLE
A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles - RIDDER
One who, or that which, rids. - RIDERLESS
Having no rider; as, a riderless horse. H. Kingsley. - RIDGELET
A little ridge. - RIDDLER
One who riddles . - RIDGEBONE
The backbone. Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland. - RIDICULIZE
To make ridiculous; to ridicule. Chapman. - RIDEN
imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride. Chaucer. - RIDDANCE
1. The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out. Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Lev. xxiii. 22. 2. The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape. "Riddance from all adversity." Hooker. - RIDGEBAND
The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger. Halliwell. - RIDABLE
Suitable for riding; as, a ridable horse; a ridable road. - RIDICLE
Ridicule. Foxe. - RIDDLING
Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle. "Riddling triplets." Tennyson. -- Rid"dling, adv. - RIDGEL
See RIDGELLING - RIDGEROPE
See LIFE - RIDEAU
A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge. - RIDGINGLY
So as to form ridges. - CHLORIDIZE
See CHLORIDATE - PIPERIDINE
An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. - VIRIDITY
1. Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage. 2. Freshness; soundness. Evelyn. - AUROCHLORIDE
The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate. - RID
imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i. He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted. Thackeray. - ANTHERIDIUM
The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a. - ARIDITY
1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris. - OPHIURIDA
See OPHIURIOIDEA - PERIDROME
The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple. - CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship. - LUCERNARIDA
A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; - - called also Calycozoa. A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora. - PTERIDOPHYTA
A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia. -- Pter"i*do*phyte`, n. Note: This is a modern term, devised to replace the older ones acrogens and vascular - VIRIDINE
A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C12H19N7, obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine. - ACRIDLY
In an acid manner. - NEURIDIN
a nontoxic base, C5H14N2, found in the putrescent matters of flesh, fish, decaying cheese, etc. - AUCTION BRIDGE
A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score - HYBRIDIST
One who hybridizes.