Word Meanings - CAPARISON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
saddle, coach, etc.; capa cloak, cover (fr. LL. capa, cf. LL. caparo 1. An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. Their horses clothed with rich caparison. Drylen.
Additional info about word: CAPARISON
saddle, coach, etc.; capa cloak, cover (fr. LL. capa, cf. LL. caparo 1. An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. Their horses clothed with rich caparison. Drylen. 2. Gay or rich clothing. My heart groans beneath the gay caparison. Smollett.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CAPARISON)
- Apparel
- Clothes
- robes
- vesture
- vestments
- raiment
- garniture
- habiliments
- habit
- dress
- clothing
- caparison
- trappings
- housings
Related words: (words related to CAPARISON)
- HABITURE
Habitude. - CAPARISON
1. To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse. The steeds, caparisoned with purple, stand. Dryden. 2. To aborn with rich dress; to dress. I am caparisoned like a man. Shak. - HABITED
1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison. - DRESSINESS
The state of being dressy. - RAIMENT
1. Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense. Living, both food and raiment she supplies. Dryden. 2. An article of dress. Sir P. Sidney. - CLOTHESLINE
A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. - HABIT
habiten to dwell, F. habiter, fr. L. habitare to have frequently, to 1. To inhabit. In thilke places as they habiten. Rom. of R. 2. To dress; to clothe; to array. They habited themselves lite those rural deities. Dryden. 3. To accustom; - APPAREL
1. To make or get ready; to prepare. Chaucer. 2. To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out. Ships . . . appareled to fight. Hayward. 3. To dress or clothe; to attire. They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' - DRESS CIRCLE
A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn. - CLOTHESHORSE
A frame to hang clothes on. - CLOTHIER
1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes. - DRESSING
An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; - HABITUATION
The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated. - HABITABLE
A dwelling place. Chaucer. Southey. - HABITUATE
1. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson. 2. To settle as an - HABITATION
1. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham. 2. Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house. The Lord . . . blesseth the habitation of the just. Prov. iii. 33. - CLOTHING
See CARD (more info) 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing - HABITUDE
1. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. South. The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another. Locke. The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else - DRESSY
Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving. - HABITAT
The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant. 2. Place where anything is commonly found. This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire. Earle. - UNDRESS
To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - DEMANDRESS
A woman who demands. - INHABITATE
To inhabit. - BEDCLOTHES
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak. - COHABITER
A cohabitant. Hobbes. - INHABITATIVENESS
A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country. - OFFENDRESS
A woman who offends. Shak. - HEARSECLOTH
A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - NECKCLOTH
A piece of any fabric worn around the neck. - BROADCLOTH
A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide. - UNCLOTHED
Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym: - REDRESSIVE
Tending to redress. Thomson. - INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of - CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.