Word Meanings - HOGGING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging. Hogging frame. See Hogframe.

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• HOGGET
  1. A young boar of the second year. 2. A sheep or colt alter it has passed its first year.
• ARCHDUKE
  A prince of the imperial family of Austria. Note: Formerly this title was assumed by the rulers of Lorraine, Brabant, Austria, etc. It is now appropriated to the descendants of the imperial family of Austria through the make line, all such male
• ARCHIVIST
  A keeper of archives or records.
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• HOGGER-PIPE; HOGGERPIPE
  The upper terminal pipe of a mining pump. Raymond.
• ARCHETYPE
  The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted. (more info) 1. The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which
• ARCHONTATE
  An archon's term of office. Gibbon.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• ARCHIL
  1. A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. Tomlinson.
• ARCHICAL
  Chief; primary; primordial. Cudworth.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• ARCH STONE
  A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir.
• ARCHWAY
  A way or passage under an arch.
• ARCHAIST
  1. Am antiquary. 2. One who uses archaisms.
• ARCHITECTURAL
  Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture. -- Ar`chi*tec"tur*al*ly, adv.
• DROOPINGLY
  In a drooping manner.
• ARCHTRAITOR
  A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts.
• ARCHENTERON
  The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.
• SAGGER
  1. A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a segga. 2. The clay of which such pots or cases are made.
• ARCHERY
  1. The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows. 2. Archers, or bowmen, collectively. Let all our archery fall off In wings of shot a-both sides of the van. Webster .
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• NOMARCH
  The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.
• MARCHER
  One who marches.
• MONARCHIAN
  One of a sect in the early Christian church which rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; -- called also patripassian.
• OLIGARCHIST
  An advocate or supporter of oligarchy.
• THEARCHY
  Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.
• TOPARCH
  The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. The prince and toparch of that country. Fuller.
• OLIGARCHAL
  Oligarchic. Glover.
• IRENARCH
  An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace.
• POLEMARCH
  In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.
• STARCHER
  One who starches.