Word Meanings - HOPPERDOZER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An appliance for the destruction of insects, consisting of a shallow iron box, containing kerosene or coated with tar or other sticky substance, which may be mounted on wheels. (more info) because conceived as putting insects to sleep or as dosing

Additional info about word: HOPPERDOZER

An appliance for the destruction of insects, consisting of a shallow iron box, containing kerosene or coated with tar or other sticky substance, which may be mounted on wheels. (more info) because conceived as putting insects to sleep or as dosing them with

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• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• MOUNTING
  1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
• MOUNTAINOUS
  1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
• MOUNTAINOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being mountainous.
• COATLESS
  Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• COATING
  1. A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial. 2. Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.
• DOSE
  1. The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time. 2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive. 3. Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust
• PUTTYROOT
  An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• PUTTER-ON
  An instigator. Shak.
• DOSEL
  See N
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• MOUNTANT
  Raised; high.
• COATI
  A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, but with a longer body, tail, and nose. Note: The red coati , called also coati mondi, inhabits Mexico and Central America. The brown coati is found in Surinam and Brazil.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SLEEP-AT-NOON
  A plant which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• SCRATCH COAT
  The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
• DEMOUNT
  To dismount.
• 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
• OVERCOAT
  A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.
• TUXEDO COAT; TUXEDO
  A kind of black coat for evening dress made without skirts; -- so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York.
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• ENDOSCOPE
  An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
• INSURMOUNTABILITY
  The state or quality of being insurmountable.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• UNDERCOAT
  1. A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat. 2. A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat.