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.
• 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.
• ROMANTICALY
  In a romantic manner.
• 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
• 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.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• 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.