Word Meanings - ROUGHRIDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who breaks horses; especially , a noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry, whose duty is to assist the riding master.

Related words: (words related to ROUGHRIDER)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• RIDGELING
  A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
• RID
  imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i. He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted. Thackeray.
• RIDDEN
  p. p. of Ride.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• RIDDER
  One who, or that which, rids.
• RIDERLESS
  Having no rider; as, a riderless horse. H. Kingsley.
• ASSISTER
  An assistant; a helper.
• NONCOMMISSIONED
  Not having a commission. Noncommissioned officer , a subordinate officer not appointed by a commission from the chief executive or supreme authority of the State; but by the Secretary of War or by the commanding officer of the regiment.
• RIDGELET
  A little ridge.
• RIDDLER
  One who riddles .
• RIDGEBONE
  The backbone. Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland.
• ASSISTLESS
  Without aid or help. Pope.
• RIDE
  LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. ritan, Icel. riedha, Sw. rida, Dan. ride; cf. L. raeda a carriage, which is from a Celtic word. Cf. 1. To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. Chaucer. Let your
• HORSESHOE
  The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• CHLORIDIZE
  See CHLORIDATE
• PIPERIDINE
  An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• VIRIDITY
  1. Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage. 2. Freshness; soundness. Evelyn.
• AUROCHLORIDE
  The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.
• ANTHERIDIUM
  The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a.
• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• OPHIURIDA
  See OPHIURIOIDEA
• PERIDROME
  The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple.
• CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
  A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
• LUCERNARIDA
  A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; - - called also Calycozoa. A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora.
• PTERIDOPHYTA
  A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia. -- Pter"i*do*phyte`, n. Note: This is a modern term, devised to replace the older ones acrogens and vascular
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• VIRIDINE
  A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C12H19N7, obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine.