Word Meanings - OVERSHOE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.

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• WARMTH
  The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement;
• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• EXTRAAXILLAR; EXTRAAXILLARY
  Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.
• EXTRA-OCULAR
  Inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antennæ of certain insects.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• EXTRAVENATE
  Let out of the veins. "Extravenate blood." Glanvill.
• EXTRADITABLE
  1. Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice. 2. Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• EXTRADOTAL
  Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property.
• EXTRATERRITORIALITY
  The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory; esp. ,
• EXTRAVASATE
  To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood.
• EXTRAVAGANT
  + vagance, , p. pr. of vagari to wander, from vagus wandering, vague. 1. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak. 2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained;
• EXTRAUGHT
  Extracted; descended. Knowing whence thou art extraught Shak.
• EXTRAMISSION
  A sending out; emission. Sir T. Browne.
• EXTRAPAROCHIAL
  Beyond the limits of a parish. -- Ex`tra*pa*ro"chi*al*ly, adv.
• EXTRAORDINARINESS
  The quality of being extraordinary. Gov. of the Tongue.
• EXTRAVASATION
  The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.
• EXTRADICTIONARY
  Consisting not in words, but in realities. Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne.
• EXTRATROPICAL
  Beyond or outside of the tropics. Whewell.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• AMBIDEXTRAL
  Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle.
• SCRUBBER
  A gas washer. See under Gas. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.
• LINDIA
  A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
• DRUBBER
  One who drubs. Sir W. Scott.
• GOULARDS EXTRACT
  An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.
• DEXTRAL
  Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left. Dextral shell , a spiral shell the whorls of which turn from left right, or like the hands of a watch when the apex of the spire is toward the eye of the observer.