Word Meanings - BICYCLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who rides a bicycle.

BICYCLE
A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.
BICYCLER
One who rides a bicycle.
SAFETY BICYCLE
A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear wheel by a multiplying gear.
HESPERIDES
The daughters of Hesperus, or Night , and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules.
PIERIDES
The Muses.
CANTHARIDES
See CANTHARIS
ALECTORIDES
A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.
BRIDESMAN
A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man." Sir W. Scott.
VIRIDESCENT
Slightly green; greenish.
BRIDESTAKE
A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. Divide the broad bridecake Round about the bridestake. B. Jonson.
BRIDESMAID
A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.
VIRIDESCENCE
Quality or state of being viridescent.
IRIDESCENCE
Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color; as, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl.
IRIDESCENT
Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.