Word Meanings - HIPPOCAMPUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune. Fairholt.
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- HORSE-LEECHERY
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses. - HORSEMAN
A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - HORSEKNOP
Knapweed. - HORSERAKE
A rake drawn by a horse. - JOINTWEED
A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers. - HORSEFLESH
1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on - HORSEPLAY
Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden. - JOINTURELESS
Having no jointure. - CHARIOTEE
A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats. - HORSE-JOCKEY
1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses. - JOINER
1. One who, or that which, joins. 2. One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork necessary for the finishing of buildings. "One Snug, the joiner." Shak. 3. A wood-working machine, for - DOLPHIN
A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel. A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage. A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten - JOINTING
The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule , a long straight rule, - HORSEMINT
A coarse American plant of the Mint family . In England, the wild mint . - HORSEWORM
The larva of a botfly. - OTHER
Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer. - HORSESHOE
The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in - DOLPHINET
A female dolphin. Spenser. - HORSEWOOD
A West Indian tree with showy, crimson blossoms. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - UNJOINT
To disjoint. - STRAIGHT-JOINT
Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - DISJOINT
Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - REAR-HORSE
A mantis. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - ISOTHERMAL
Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram - EEL-MOTHER
The eelpout. - ISOTHERMOBATHIC
Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean. - MOTHER-OF-PEARL
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.