Word Meanings - NOMAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game. (more info) cf. F. nomade. Cf. Astronomy, Economy, Nimble, Nemesis, Numb,

Related words: (words related to NOMAD)

• PASTURER
  One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• NOMADE
  See N
• 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.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• PASTURELESS
  Destitute of pasture. Milton.
• TRIBE
  A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order
• FIXTURE
  Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• FIXING
  Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. (more info) 1. The act or process of making fixed. 2. That which is fixed; a fixture. 3. pl.
• PASTURE
  1. Food; nourishment. Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous. Spenser. 2. Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing. 3. Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage. He maketh me to lie down in green
• FIX
  Fixed; solidified. Chaucer.
• SEARCHABLENESS
  Quality of being searchable.
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• SEARCHABLE
  Capable of being searched.
• FIXURE
  Fixed position; stable condition; firmness. Shak.
• FIXEDLY
  In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• CEPHALOTRIBE
  An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• REPASTURE
  Food; entertainment. Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• DIATRIBE
  A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.
• SUBTRIBE
  A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• CONFIXURE
  Act of fastening.