bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - CAPONET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A young capon. Chapman.

Related words: (words related to CAPONET)

  • YOUNGISH
    Somewhat young. Tatler.
  • YOUNG
    , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
  • YOUNGTH
    Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
  • YOUNGNESS
    The quality or state of being young.
  • YOUNG ONE
    A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt.
  • CAPONIZE
    To castrate, as a fowl.
  • CAPON
    A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. Shak. The merry thought of a capon. W. Irving.
  • YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which
  • CAPONET
    A young capon. Chapman.
  • CAPONIERE
    A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway. (more info) cage for fattening capons, hence, a place of refuge; cf. It.
  • YOUNGLING
    A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early life. "More dear . . . than younglings to their dam." Spenser. He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you as with us younglings. Ridley.
  • YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical welfare of young men, founded, June 6, 1844, by George Williams in London. In 1851 it extended to the United States and Canada, and in 1855 representatives of similar
  • YOUNGGER
    One who is younger; an inferior in age; a junior. "The elder shall serve the younger." Rom. ix. 12.
  • CHAPMAN
    akin to D. koopman, Sw. köpman, Dan. kiöpmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to 1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling
  • YOUNGLY
    Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
  • YOUNGTHLY
    Pertaining to, or resembling, youth; youthful. Spenser.
  • YOUNGSTER
    A young person; a youngling; a lad. "He felt himself quite a youngster, with a long life before him." G. Eliot.
  • DUYOUNG
    See DUGONG

 

Back to top