Word Meanings - TROOPMEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
By troops; in crowds. So, troopmeal, Troy pursued a while, laying on with swords and darts. Chapman.
Related words: (words related to TROOPMEAL)
- TROOPSHIP
A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport. - WHILE
wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All - WHILES
1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n. - LAYLAND
Land lying untilled; fallow ground. Blount. - WHILERE
A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton. - LAYERING
A propagating by layers. Gardner. - LAYING
1. The act of one who, or that which, lays. 2. The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch. 3. The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work. - SWORDSMANSHIP
The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper. - PURSUANCE
1. The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after. Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths. Jer. Taylor. 2. The state of being pursuant; consequence. In pursuance of, in accordance with; - 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. - PURSUANT; PURSUANTLY
Agreeably; conformably. - PURSUABLE
Capable of being, or fit to be, pursued, followed, or prosecuted. Sherwood. - LAYNER
A whiplash. - PURSUE
poursuivre, fr. L. prosequi; pro forward + sequi to follow. See Sue, 1. To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare. We happiness pursue; we fly from pain. Prior. The happiness of men lies - PURSUANT
Acting in consequence or in prosecution ; hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of. The conclusion which I draw from these premises, pursuant to the query laid down, is, etc. Waterland. - PURSUIT
Prosecution. That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court. Fuller. Curve of pursuit , a curve described by a point which is at each instant moving towards a second point, which is itself moving according - LAYER
That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. 3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached - LAYMAN
1. One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do. Being a layman, I ought not to have concerned myself with speculations which - LAYETTE
The outfit of clothing, blankets, etc., prepared for a newborn infant, and placed ready for used. - CHAPMAN
akin to D. koopman, Sw. köpman, Dan. kiöpmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to 1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling - PLAY
quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was - WAYLAYER
One who waylays another. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky. - PLAYTE
See PLEYT - TRACKLAYER
Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n. - MEDAL PLAY
Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes. - OVERLAY
To put an overlay on. (more info) 1. To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams - ERSTWHILE
Till then or now; heretofore; formerly. - CLAYISH
Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it. - UNLAY
To untwist; as, to unlay a rope. - SPLAYFOOT
A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot. - RELAY
To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.