Word Meanings - STAGECOACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
Related words: (words related to STAGECOACH)
- STATIONARINESS
The quality or state of being stationary; fixity. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - STAGERY
Exhibition on the stage. - STATIONARY
1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey. 2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary. - COACHMAN
A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean ; -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin. (more info) 1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage. - STATIONAL
Of or pertaining to a station. - COACHMANSHIP
Skill in driving a coach. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - PLACE
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe - STATIONER
1. A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere. Dryden. 2. One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing. - COACHFELLOW
One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence , a comrade. Shak. - STATION
The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat. (more info) 1. The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture. A station like the herald, Mercury. Shak. Their manner was to stand at - PLACENTA
The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi - CONVEYANCER
One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill. - COACHDOG
One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog. - PLACEMAN
One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott. - STAGECOACHMAN
One who drives a stagecoach. - MENOSTATION
See MENOSTASIS - WEATHER STATION
A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering - TORPEDO STATION
A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport, - INCRUSTATION
A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement. (more info) 1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted. 2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - INTERBASTATION
Patchwork. Dr. J. Smith. - COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like - CIRCUMGESTATION
The act or process of carrying about. Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor. - WASTAGE
Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste. - PROTESTATION
Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial. (more info) 1. - HOSTAGE
A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before