Word Meanings - HANDSPRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.

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• PLACODERMATA
  See PLACODERMI
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• 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.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• PLACIT
  A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• PLACOPHORA
  A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• SOMERSAULT; SOMERSET
  A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and Donne. Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset. Beau. & Fl. (more info) soubresault, It. soprassalto an overleap, fr. L. supra over + saltus a leap, fr. salire to leap;
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACIDNESS
  The quality or state of being placid.
• 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
• PLACOIDIAN
  One of the placoids.
• PLACABLENESS
  The quality of being placable.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like