Word Meanings - HORNING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent. J. Gregory. Letters of horning , the process or authority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to
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Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent. J. Gregory. Letters of horning , the process or authority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to comply therewith. Mozley & W.
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- DIRECT CURRENT
A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the - HORN-MAD
Quite mad; -- raving crazy. Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, that the town are horn-mad after Gray. - DIRECTER
One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - HORNBOOK
1. The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often - PROCESSIVE
Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge. - CRESCENT
The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants. (more info) sense 1), OF. creissant increasing, F. croissant, p. pr. - PROCESSIONALIST
One who goes or marches in a procession. - HORNSTONE
A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert. - HORNING
Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent. J. Gregory. Letters of horning , the process or authority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to - DIRECT ACTION
See BELOW - DIRECT NOMINATION
The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates - DIRECTRIX
1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - HORNY-HANDED
Having the hands horny and callous from labor. - COURTESAN
A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp. - HORNET
A large, strong wasp. The European species is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - DEHORN
To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth or the horns of by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal . - PRONGHORN
An American antelope , native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called - THORN-HEADED
Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm , any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - THORNBUT
The turbot. - THORNSET
Set with thorns. Dyer. - ALTHORN
An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove. - ALPENHORN; ALPHORN
A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube. - BUGLE HORN
1. A bugle. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott. 2. A drinking vessel made of horn. And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine. Chaucer. - INJUSTICE
1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - SUPERCRESCENT
Growing on some other growing thing. Johnson. - MISORDER
To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.