Word Meanings - HAYCOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A conical pile or hear of hay in the field. The tanned haycock in the mead. Milton.

Related words: (words related to HAYCOCK)

• FIELD
  The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity
• HAYCOCK
  A conical pile or hear of hay in the field. The tanned haycock in the mead. Milton.
• FIELDING
  The act of playing as a fielder.
• TANNATE
  A salt of tannic acid.
• FIELDY
  Open, like a field. Wyclif.
• TANNIN
  See TANNIC
• CONICALITY
  Conicalness.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• TANNIC
  Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid. Tannic acid. An acid obtained from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, C14H10O9, having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound,
• FIELDED
  Engaged in the field; encamped. To help fielded friends. Shak.
• TANNER
  One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
• TANNERY
  1. A place where the work of tanning is carried on. 2. The art or process of tanning. Carlyle.
• TANNIER
  See TANIER
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• FIELDEN
  Consisting of fields. The fielden country also and plains. Holland.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• TANNAGE
  A tanning; the act, operation, or result of tanning. They should have got his cheek fresh tannage. R. Browning.
• FIELDFARE
  a small thrush which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.
• FIELDER
  A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.
• TANNING
  The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan, v. t., 1.
• HOMEFIELD
  Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.
• LACONIC; LACONICAL
  1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or
• STANNYEL; STANYEL
  See STANNEL
• STANNINE; STANNITE
  A mineral of a steel
• BRITANNIC
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• STANNARY
  Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works. The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record. Blackstone.
• INFIELD
  To inclose, as a field.
• STANNATE
  A salt of stannic acid.
• STANNOSO-
  A combining form denoting relation to, or connection with, certain stannnous compounds.
• STANNOUS
  Pertaining to, or containing, tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with stannic compounds. Stannous chloride , a white crystalline substance, SnCl2. 2, obtained by dissolving tin
• BRITANNIA
  A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and isused for table ware. Called also Britannia metal.
• METASTANNATE
  A salt of metastannic acid.