Word Meanings - BARKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The spotted redshank. (more info) 1. An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably. 2. One who stands at the doors of shops to urg 3. A pistol. Dickens.

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• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• DOORSTEAD
  Entrance or place of a door. Bp. Warburton.
• DOORSTEP
  The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.
• DOORSTONE
  The stone forming a threshold.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• SPOTTEDNESS
  State or quality of being spotted.
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• DOORSILL
  The sill or threshold of a door.
• ANIMALCULE
  An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
• DOORSTOP
  The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.
• ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.
• PISTOL
  The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, -- now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names. See Illust. of Revolver. Pistol carbine, a firearm with a removable but- piece, and thus capable of being used either as
• SPOTTED
  Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." Spenser. Spotted fever , a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree , an Australian tree ; -- so
• PISTOLEER
  One who uses a pistol. Carlyle.
• SPOTTER
  One who spots.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• EPISTOLET
  A little epistle. Lamb.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• EPISTOLAR
  Epistolary. Dr. H. More.
• EPISTOLIZE
  To write epistles.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• EPISTOLIC; EPISTOLICAL
  Pertaining to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.
• EPISTOLIZER
  A writer of epistles.