Word Meanings - DISMOUNT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To come down; to descend. But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser. 2. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.
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- DESCENDING
Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Descending constellations or signs , those through which the planets descent toward the south. -- Descending node , that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing - DESCENDENT
Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source. More than mortal grace Speaks thee descendent of ethereal race. Pope. - PERCHANCE
By chance; perhaps; peradventure. - DESCENDIBILITY
The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate. - DISMOUNT
1. To come down; to descend. But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser. 2. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted. - DESCEND
To move toward the south, or to the southward. (more info) 1. To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite - PERCH
1. Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidæ, as the common American or yellow perch , and the European perch (P. fluviatilis). 2. Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging - PERCHLORATE
A salt of perchloric acid. - PERCHROMIC
Pertaining to, or designating, a certain one of the highly oxidized compounds of chromium, which has a deep blue color, and is produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide. - PERCHERON
One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman. - ALIGHT
Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + lihtan, to alight, orig. to render light, to remove a burden from, fr. liht, leoht, light. See 1. To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount. 2. To descend - DESCENDIBLE
1. Admitting descent; capable of being descended. 2. That may descend from an ancestor to an heir. "A descendant estate." Sir W. Jones. - PERCHER
A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar. Bailey. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, perches. J. Burroughs. 2. One of the Insessores. 3. Etym: - DESCENDER
One who descends. - DESCENDANT
Descendent. - PERCHLORIC
Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid , of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric. - PERCHANT
A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering. - PERCHLORIDE
A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series. - DESCENDINGLY
In a descending manner. - GUTTA-PERCHA
A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, or Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves - SUPERCHERY
Deceit; fraud; imposition. - OVERPERCH
To perch upon; to fly over. Shak. - HYPERCHROMATISM
The condition of having an unusual intensity of color. - SEA PERCH
The European bass ; -- called also sea dace. The cunner. The sea bass. The name is applied also to other species of fishes. - SUPERCHEMICAL
Above or beyond chemistry; inexplicable by chemical laws. J. Le Conte. - CONDESCEND
1. To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior. "Condescend to men of low estate." Rom. xii. 16. Can they think me so broken, so debased With corporal - SUPERCHARGE
To charge upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.