Word Meanings - TIRAILLEUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.
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- ACTURE
Action. Shak. - ACTURIENCE
Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote. - CHECKWORK
Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard. - ACTINOLITE
A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses. - TROOPSHIP
A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport. - ACTINOSTOME
The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal. - APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - FRONTIERSMAN
A man living on the frontier. - ACTINARIA
A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. - ACTUARIAL
Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity. - FRONTIERED
Placed on the frontiers. - ACTUALIZE
To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge. - APPLICATIVE
Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. - FRONTLESSLY
Shamelessly; impudently. - FRONTED
Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton. - ACTIVITY
The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness. - FRONTLET
The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. (more info) 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8. 2. A frown . What makes that - ACTUATE
Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - CHECKREIN
1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse. - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - HEMIDACTYL
Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath. - PHYLACTERED
Wearing a phylactery. - INACTUATE
To put in action. - 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. - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - RIPPER ACT; RIPPER BILL
An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials. - CONFRONT
1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew