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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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. - EQUESTRIANISM
The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - 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.