Word Meanings - TOLEDO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.

Related words: (words related to TOLEDO)

• SWORDLESS
  Destitute of a sword.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• SWORD-SHAPED
  Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
• SWORDING
  Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• FAMOUSNESS
  The state of being famous.
• SWORDED
  Girded with a sword. Milton.
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
• FAMOUSLY
  In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly. Then this land was famously enriched With politic grave counsel. Shak.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SWORDFISH
  A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1. Swordfish sucker , a remora which attaches itself to the swordfish. (more info) A very large oceanic fish , the only representative of the family Xiphiidæ. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones
• TOLEDO
  A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.
• SWORD
  One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. Sword arm, the right arm. -- Sword bayonet, a bayonet shaped somewhat like a sword, and which can be used as a sword. -- Sword bearer, one who carries his master's sword; an officer
• BLADEFISH
  A long, thin, marine fish of Europe ; the ribbon fish.
• FAMOUSED
  Renowned. Shak.
• BLADE
  The principal rafters of a roof. Weale. 6. pl. (more info) Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. bla, OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. . The root is prob. the same as that of AS. bl, E. blow, 1. Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of
• BLADEBONE
  The scapula. See Blade, 4.
• BLADESMITH
  A sword cutler.
• SWORDPLAY
  Fencing; a sword fight.
• SWORDMAN
  A swordsman. "Sinewy swordmen." Shak.
• INFAMOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
• BROADSWORD
  A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.
• INFAMOUSLY
  In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully. The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been infamously monopolized and huckstered. Burke.
• TWYBLADE
  See TWAYBLADE
• DEFAMOUS
  Defamatory.
• BACKSWORD
  1. A sword with one sharp edge. 2. In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. Halliwell.
• TWAYBLADE
  Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two
• PASSWORD
  A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign. Macaulay.