Word Meanings - COACHMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean ; -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin. (more info) 1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• SPINEL; SPINELLE
  A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also
• SPINED
  Furnished with spines; spiny.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• SPINEL
  Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle. Knight.
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• TROPICALLY
  In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
• COACHMAN
  A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean ; -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin. (more info) 1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• CALL
  callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
• SPINE-TAILED
  Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. Spine- tailed swift. See Spinetail .
• SPINE-FINNED
  Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; -- said of certain fishes.
• SPINETED
  Slit; cleft.
• CALLIOPE
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
• COACHMANSHIP
  Skill in driving a coach.
• CALLOT
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• ACRONYCALLY
  In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.
• PHYSIOLOGICALLY
  In a physiological manner.
• DIAMETRICALLY
  In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.
• ETHNICALLY
  In an ethnical manner.