Word Meanings - MARIONETTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The buffel duck. (more info) 1. A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.
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- BUFFEL DUCK
A small duck ; the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead. - MOVER
1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These - MOVELESS
Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope. - MOVABLE
1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable - MOVE
To transfer from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king. 3. To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. Minds desirous of - MOVIE
A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used in pl. - PUPPET
The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe. Puppet master. Same as Puppetman. -- Puppet play, a puppet show. -- Puppet player, one who manages the motions of puppets. -- Puppet show, a mock drama performed by puppets moved by - MOVING PICTURE
A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of vision, - PUPPETRY
Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation. Puppetry of the English laws of divorce. Chambers. - MOVENT
Moving. Grew. - MOVING
1. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power. 2. Exciting movement of the mind; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal. I sang an old moving story. - MOVINGLY
In a moving manner. Addison. - PUPPETISH
Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; of the nature of a puppet. - MOVEMENT
A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch. Febrille movement , an elevation of the body temperature; a fever. -- Movement cure. See Kinesiatrics. -- Movement - MOVABLY
In a movable manner or condition. - MOVABILITY
Movableness. - PUPPETMAN
A master of a puppet show. - MOVINGNESS
The power of moving. - MOVABLENESS
The quality or state of being movable; mobility; susceptibility of motion. - ENMOVE
See EMMOVE - PROMOVE
To move forward; to advance; to promote. Bp. Fell. - IRREMOVABLE
Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv. - THERMOVOLTAIC
Of or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action. Faraday. - ROUGHSTRINGS
Pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support. - UNMOVABLY
Immovably. J. Ellis. - IMMOVABILITY
The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose. - COUNTERMOVE
To move in a contrary direction to. - KISSING STRINGS
Cap or bonnet strings made long to tie under the chin. One of her ladyship's kissing strings, once pink and fluttering and now faded and soiled. Pall Mall Mag. - SELF-MOVED
Moved by inherent power., without the aid of external impulse. - IRREMOVABILITY
The quality or state of being irremovable; immovableness. - IMMOVABLE
Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n. Blackstone. Immovable apparatus , an appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured parts firmly in place. -- Immovable