Word Meanings - BLINKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, blinks. 2. A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs

Additional info about word: BLINKER

A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, blinks. 2. A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment. Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority. M. Green. 3. pl.

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• SEEMINGNESS
  Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• GLARE
  1. A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light. The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare. Dryden. 2. A fierce, piercing look or stare. About them round, A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.
• 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.
• HORSEKNOP
  Knapweed.
• HORSERAKE
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• SEERSUCKER
  A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• SEEK
  Sick. Chaucer.
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• LEATHERWOOD
  A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.
• SEEMING
  1. Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Shak. 2. Apprehension; judgment. Chaucer. Nothing more clear unto their seeming. Hooker. His persuasive words, impregned With reason,
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• PROTECTORIAL
  See PROTECTORAL
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• MESEEMS
  It seems to me.
• WORMSEED
  Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• LOPSEED
  A perennial herb , having slender seedlike fruits.
• GAPESEED
  Any strange sight. Wright.
• BESEECH
  1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate.
• UPSEEK
  To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey.
• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
• BERSEEM
  An Egyptian clover extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• REAR-HORSE
  A mantis.
• HAGSEED
  The offspring of a hag. Shak.