Word Meanings - CRASHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The noise of many things falling and breaking at once. There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10.
Related words: (words related to CRASHING)
- BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - FALLALS; FAL-LALS
Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray. - HILLSIDE
The side or declivity of a hill. - SHALLOP
A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails. - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - FALLER
A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - THERETO
1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer. - THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer. - THEREOUT
1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer. - FALLOW
Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith. - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity. - THEREUNDER
Under that or this. - FALLOPIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus. - SHALLOON
A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift. - SHALLOW-BRAINED
Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South. - FALLENCY
An exception. Jer. Taylor. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - UNFALLIBLE
Infallible. Shak. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - MISFALL
To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer. - OATHBREAKING
The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak