Word Meanings - MANESHEET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A covering placed over the upper part of a horse's head.

Related words: (words related to MANESHEET)

• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• PLACODERMATA
  See PLACODERMI
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• HORSEMAN
  A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• HORSEKNOP
  Knapweed.
• HORSERAKE
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• PLACIT
  A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn.
• PLACOPHORA
  A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• HORSE-JOCKEY
  1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• REAR-HORSE
  A mantis.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• SAWHORSE
  A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.