Word Meanings - MESTIZO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock. Mestizo wool, wool imported from South America, and produced by mixed breeds of sheep. (more info) F. métis; all fr. LL. mixtitius, fr. L. mixtus mixed, p. p.

Related words: (words related to MESTIZO)

• MIX
  mieshate, W. mysgu, Gael. measg, L. miscere, mixtum, Gr. miçra mixed. The English word has been influenced by L. miscere, mixtum (cf. Mixture), and even the AS. miscan may have been borrowed fr. L. 1. To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of
• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• MIXEDLY
  In a mixed or mingled manner.
• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• MESTIZO
  The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock. Mestizo wool, wool imported from South America, and produced by mixed breeds of sheep. (more info) F. métis; all fr. LL. mixtitius, fr. L. mixtus mixed, p. p.
• 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;
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• SHEEP'S-FOOT
  A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• SHEEP-HEADED
  Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• SHEEPBITER
  One who practices petty thefts. Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.