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Word Meanings - LOCOMOTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal. 2. Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.

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  • JOURNEYWORK
    Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.
  • ROVINGLY
    In a wandering manner.
  • WANDERMENT
    The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
  • JOURNEYER
    One who journeys.
  • JOURNEY-BATED
    Worn out with journeying. Shak.
  • WANDEROO
    A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
  • ITINERANT
    Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler. The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with
  • WANDERINGLY
    In a wandering manner.
  • ROAM
    To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander. He roameth to the carpenter's house. Chaucer. Daphne roaming through a thorny wood. Shak. Syn. -- To wander; rove; range; stroll; ramble. (more info) aim, OS.
  • JOURNEYMAN
    Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has mastered a handicraft or trade; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman. I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well. Shak.
  • ROVINGNESS
    The state of roving.
  • JOURNEY
    day's journey, OF. jornée, jurnée, a day, a day's work of journey, F. journée, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See 1. The travel or work of a day. Chaucer. We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half
  • ROVING
    1. The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine. 2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a
  • ITINERANTLY
    In an itinerant manner.
  • ROVER
    A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball. Casual marks at uncertain distances. Encyc. Brit. A sort of arrow. All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt
  • LOCOMOTIVENESS; LOCOMOTIVITY
    The power of changing place.
  • WANDERER
    One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
  • WANDERING
    a. & n. from Wander, v. Wandering albatross , the great white albatross. See Illust. of Albatross. -- Wandering cell , an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood. -- Wandering
  • WANDER
    1. To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. Heb. xi. 37. He wandereth abroad for
  • NOMADIC
    Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe. -- No*mad"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • PROVERBIAL
    1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
  • PROVENTRIULUS
    The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
  • CONTROVERSER
    A disputant.
  • DISAPPROVAL
    Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
  • CORROVAL
    A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.
  • APPROVEDLY
    So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
  • PROVINCIALLY
    In a provincial manner.
  • CONTROVERSAL
    1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle.
  • APPROVING
    Expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile. -- Ap*prov"ing*ly, adv.
  • IMPROVISATRICE
    See IMPROVVISATRICE
  • FORWANDER
    To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
  • DISAPPROVE
    1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
  • PROVINE
    To lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for propagation. Johnson. (more info) plant, OF. provain, from L. propago, -aginis, akin to propagare to
  • MEROVINGIAN
    Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France. -- n.
  • SACROVERTEBRAL
    Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
  • PROVENCAL
    Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.
  • RETROVERT
    To turn back.

 

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