Word Meanings - TRAINBAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia. He felt that, without some better protection than that of the trainbands and Beefeaters, his palace

Additional info about word: TRAINBAND

A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia. He felt that, without some better protection than that of the trainbands and Beefeaters, his palace and person would hardly be secure. Macaulay. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. Cowper.

Related words: (words related to TRAINBAND)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• 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.
• LONDONISM
  A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• JAMESTOWN WEED
  The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium , a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• DISSOLVATIVE
  Having the power to dissolve anything; solvent. Frampton.
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• INSTITUTOR
  A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church. (more info) 1. One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes. 2. One who educates; an instructor. Walker.
• LONDONIZE
  To impart to a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
• BETTERMOST
  Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham.
• INSTITUTIONARY
  1. Relating to an institution, or institutions. 2. Containing the first principles or doctrines; elemental; rudimentary.
• LONDON
  The capital city of England. London paste , a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. -- London pride. A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial
• LONDONER
  A native or inhabitant of London. Shak.
• FORCEFUL
  Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• REENFORCE
  To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
• DEFORCE
  To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill.
• DISCOMPANY
  To free from company; to dissociate. It she be alone now, and discompanied. B. Jonson.