Word Meanings - HORN-MAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Quite mad; -- raving crazy. Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, that the town are horn-mad after Gray.
Related words: (words related to HORN-MAD)
- RAVENER
1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. Holland. - AFTERCAST
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower. - RAVISHER
One who ravishes . - RAVENOUS
1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n. - RAVELIN
A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon. - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - RAVEN
1. Rapine; rapacity. Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. - RAVENING
Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39. - RAVISHING
Rapturous; transporting. - RAVAGER
One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler. - RAVEL
1. To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy. 2. To fall into perplexity and confusion. Till, by their own perplexities involved, They ravel more, still less resolved. Milton. 3. To make investigation - RAVAGE
Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble - AFTERSHAFT
The hypoptilum. - AFTERPIECE
The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. - RAVER
One who raves. - RAVENALA
A genus of plants related to the banana. Note: Ravenala Madagascariensis, the principal species, is an unbranched tree with immense oarlike leaves growing alternately from two sides of the stem. The sheathing bases of the leafstalks collect and - RAVELER
One who ravels. - AFTER DAMP
An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid. - AFTER-NOTE
One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note. - AFTERWISE
Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late. - PARAVAIL
At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton. - GRAVIDATION
Gravidity. - MORAVIAN
Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n. - GRAVES
The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves. - MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave. - GRAVEDIGGER
See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves. - TRAVEL
1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; - AFTER
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts - AGGRAVATING
1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow. - WILDGRAVE
A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott. - DRAVIDIAN
Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important. - GRAVIDITY
The state of being gravidated; pregnancy. - ROUNDABOUTNESS
The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness. - SESQUITERTIAL
Sesquitertian.