Word Meanings - ELBOWROOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope. "My soul hath elbowroom." Shak. Then came a stretch of grass and a little more elbowroom. W. G. Norris.
Related words: (words related to ELBOWROOM)
- SCOPELINE
Scopeloid. - MOTIONER
One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall. - MOTIONIST
A mover. - GRASSLESS
Destitute of grass. - AMPLENESS
The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness. - EXTENDLESSNESS
Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale. - ACTION
Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of - LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness. - EXTENDANT
Displaced. Ogilvie. - ACTIONABLE
That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable. - SCOPE
1. That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object. "Shooting wide, do miss the marked scope." - SCOPELOID
Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodæ, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent. -- n. - EXTEND
To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended - GRASSPLOT
A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak. - MOTION PICTURE
A moving picture. - EXTENDIBLE
Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. (more info) 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded. - GRASS-GROWN
Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road. - MOTIONLESS
Without motion; being at rest. - LITTLE-EASE
An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer. - STRETCHING
from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton. - ALEPPO GRASS
One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below. - HAEMATOSCOPE
A hæmoscope. - UNEXAMPLED
Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey. - EXCITO-MOTION
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. - LACTOSCOPE
An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity. - METEOROSCOPE
An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star. - OTOSCOPEIC
Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy. - REACTIONIST
A reactionary. C. Kingsley. - ENDOSCOPE
An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder. - MICROSPECTROSCOPE
A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance. - NERVIMOTION
The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison. - MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon. - STEREOMONOSCOPE
An instrument with two lenses, by which an image of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons at once. - REDACTION
The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest. - CHYLIFACTION
The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process. - TELESPECTROSCOPE
A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars. Lockyer. - FACTION
One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,