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Word Meanings - ACROBAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats.

Related words: (words related to ACROBAT)

  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • DARKEN
    Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
  • DANCER
    One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.
  • DARREIN
    Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • DANCY
    See DANCETTé
  • DARKNESS
    1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
  • DARING
    Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
  • VAULTING
    1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
  • VAULTY
    Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
  • DARE
    To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they
  • DARKENING
    Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
  • DARLINGTONIA
    A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.
  • DARER
    One who dares or defies.
  • DARKLING
    In the dark. So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. As the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Milton.
  • DARKLE
    To grow dark; to show indistinctly. Thackeray.
  • OTHER
    Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer.
  • DARR
    The European black tern.
  • VAULT
    An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray. 2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
  • DANCERESS
    A female dancer. Wyclif.
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
    See ASCENDENCY
  • ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • SOLIDARE
    A small piece of money. Shak.
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • PANDARISM
    See SWIFT
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • AIDANCE
    Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
  • PANDARIZE
    To pander.
  • CEDARN
    Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • ENVAULT
    To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.

 

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