Word Meanings - PIEBALD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied. "A piebald steed of Thracian strain." Dryden. 2. Fig.: Mixed. "Piebald languages." Hudibras.

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• STEAD
  1. To help; to support; to benefit; to assist. Perhaps my succour or advisement meet, Mote stead you much your purpose to subdue. Spenser. It nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves. Shak. 2. To fill place of. Shak.
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• WHITECAP
  The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• STERNUTATORY
  Sternutative. -- n.
• STEVEDORE
  One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold. (more info) to pack, to stow, L. stipare to press, compress, probably akin to E.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• STEREOTYPER
  One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• MIXEDLY
  In a mixed or mingled manner.
• STEREOCHROMIC
  Pertaining to the art of stereochromy; produced by stereochromy. -- Ste`re*o*chro"mic*al*ly, adv.
• STEREOTYPOGRAPHY
  The act or art of printing from stereotype plates.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• STEELHEAD
  A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• PHILISTER
  A Philistine; -- a cant name given to townsmen by students in German universities.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• 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
• HYSTERIA
  A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of
• CARBON STEEL
  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• MESOGASTER
  The fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity; the mesogastrium.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• UNSTEEL
  To disarm; to soften. Richardson.
• FROSTED
  Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.
• APOSTEMATOUS
  Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme.
• 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.
• GASTEROMYCETES
  An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.