Word Meanings - PATRICIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to the Roman patres or senators, or patricians. 2. Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian. Born in the patrician file of society. Sir W. Scott. His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood.
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Of or pertaining to the Roman patres or senators, or patricians. 2. Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian. Born in the patrician file of society. Sir W. Scott. His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood. Addison.
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- BLOODSUCKER
Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an - PLEBEIANCE
1. Plebeianism. 2. Plebeians, collectively. - HORSE-LEECHERY
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses. - BLOODSHEDDER
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. - APPROPRIATENESS
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - 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. - 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; - HORSEKNOP
Knapweed. - BLOODULF
The European bullfinch. - HORSERAKE
A rake drawn by a horse. - BLOODROOT
A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant - ROMANY
1. A gypsy. - NOBLEWOMAN
A female of noble rank; a peeress. - ROMANTICAL
Romantic. - 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 - ROMANISH
Pertaining to Romanism. - HORSEPLAY
Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden. - ROMANTICIST
One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - 'SBLOOD
An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak. - STILLBIRTH
The birth of a dead fetus. - CHILDBIRTH
The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor. - REAR-HORSE
A mantis. - ELEUTHEROMANIAC
Mad for freedom. - 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.