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Word Meanings - EQUITES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.

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  • HOLD
    The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
  • EQUESTRIAN
    1. Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games. 2. Being or riding on horseback; mounted; as, an equestrian statue. An equestrian lady appeared upon the plains. Spectator. 3. Belonging to, or composed
  • MIDDLE
    1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • PLACENTARY
    Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • ROMANY
    1. A gypsy.
  • ROMANTICAL
    Romantic.
  • ROMANISH
    Pertaining to Romanism.
  • ROMANTICIST
    One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
  • HOLDBACK
    1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when
  • HOLDER-FORTH
    One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
  • PLACER
    One who places or sets. Spenser.
  • EQUESTRIANISM
    The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism.
  • HOLDER
    One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
  • MIDDLE-GROUND
    That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
  • PLACE
    Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
  • ROMANTICALY
    In a romantic manner.
  • ROMANTIC
    1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more
  • MIDDLE-EARTH
    The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
  • INHOLD
    To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
  • COPYHOLDER
    One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • HIGH-HOLDER
    The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
  • BLANCH HOLDING
    A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise.
  • BEHOLDER
    One who beholds; a spectator.
  • ELEUTHEROMANIAC
    Mad for freedom.
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • OFFICEHOLDER
    An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
  • SULPHARSENATE
    A salt of sulpharsenic acid.
  • MISORDER
    To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
  • CANDLEHOLDER
    One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.
  • FOREHOLDING
    Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. L'Estrange.

 

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