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Word Meanings - SOWAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In India, a mounted soldier.

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  • MOUNTABLE
    Such as can be mounted.
  • INDIANEER
    An Indiaman.
  • MOUNTING
    1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
  • SOLDIERLY
    Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney.
  • MOUNTAINOUS
    1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
  • MOUNTAINOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being mountainous.
  • SOLDIERLIKE
    Like a soldier; soldierly.
  • INDIA RUBBER
    . See Caoutchouc.
  • MOUNTANT
    Raised; high.
  • MOUNTEBANKISM
    The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
  • MOUNTEBANK
    1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
  • MOUNT
    A bank; a fund. Mount of piety. See Mont de piété. (more info) montis; cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent, menace: cf. F. mont. 1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding
  • SOLDIERING
    1. The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier. 2. The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2.
  • INDIAMAN
    A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
  • MOUNTENAUNCE
    Mountance.
  • MOUNTER
    1. One who mounts. 2. An animal mounted; a monture.
  • INDIA STEEL
    See WOOTZ
  • MOUNTEBANKERY
    The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
  • MOUNTAIN STATE
    Montana; -- a nickname.
  • INDIAN
    river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars;
  • DEMOUNT
    To dismount.
  • INSURMOUNTABILITY
    The state or quality of being insurmountable.
  • EAST INDIAN
    Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
  • REMOUNT
    To mount again.
  • 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.
  • POLY-MOUNTAIN
    Same as Poly, n. The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe. The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe.
  • DISMOUNT
    1. To come down; to descend. But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser. 2. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.
  • WEST INDIAN
    A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.

 

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