Word Meanings - SHIPPEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A stable; a cowhouse.
Related words: (words related to SHIPPEN)
- STABLENESS
The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability. - STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler. - STABLE STAND
The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing - STABLER
A stable keeper. De Foe. - STABLE
1. Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government. In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable. Rogers. 2. Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; - POSTABLE
Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu. - INTESTABLE
Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone. - CONSTABLESS
The wife of a constable. - CONTESTABLE
Capable of being contested; debatable. - THERMOSTABLE
Capable of being heated to or somewhat above 55ยบ C. without loss of special properties; -- said of immune substances, etc. - INTASTABLE
Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. Grew. - UNCONTESTABLE
Incontestable. - ACCOSTABLE
Approachable; affable. Hawthorne. - DETESTABLE
Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11. Syn. -- Abominable; - DETESTABLENESS
The quality or state of being detestable. - UNSTABLE
Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow. -- Un*sta"ble*ness, n. Chaucer. Unstable equilibrium. See Stable equilibrium, under Stable. - PRESTABLE
Payable. - MANIFESTABLE
Such as can be manifested. - CONSTABLE
sense 1), OF. conestable, F. conn, LL. conestabulus, constabularius, comes stabuli, orig., count of the stable, master of the horse, equerry; comes ount + L. stabulum stable. See Count a 1. A high officer in the monarhical establishments of the - CONSTABLESHIP
The office or functions of a constable. - GUSTABLE
1. Capable of being tasted; tastable. This position informs us of a vulgar error, terming the gall bitter; whereas there is nothing gustable sweeter. Harvey. 2. Pleasant to the taste; toothsome; savory. A gustable thing, seen or smelt, excites - LIVERY STABLE
. A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 & .